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The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir

The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir

Baker, Laura Jean

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ISBN10: 1615194398
ISBN13: 9781615194391
Publisher: Experiment
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
With the birth of her first child, soon-to-be professor Laura Jean Baker finds herself electrified by oxytocin, the love hormone--the first effective antidote to her lifelong depression. Over the next eight years, her oxy cravings, and her family, only grow--to the dismay of her husband, Ryan, a freelance public defender. As her reckless baby-making threatens her family's middle-class existence, Baker identifies more and more with Ryan's legal clients, often drug-addled fellow citizens of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Is she any less desperate for her next fix?

Baker is in an impossible bind: The same drive that sustains her endangers her family; the cure is also the disease. She explores this all-too-human paradox by threading her story through those of her local counterparts who've run afoul of the law--like Rob McNally, the lovable junkie who keeps resurfacing in Ryan's life. As Baker vividly reports on their alleged crimes--theft, kidnapping, opioid abuse, and even murder--she unerringly conjures tenderness for the accused, yet increasingly questions her own innocence.

Baker's ruthless self-interrogation makes this her personal affidavit--her sworn statement, made for public record if not a court of law. With a wrenching ending that compels us to ask whether Baker has fallen from maternal grace, this is an extraordinary addition to the literature of motherhood.

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