'And Now We Have Everything' Charts The Emotional Extremes Of An Ordinary Pregnancy
Memoirs now tend towards the unique and superhuman, recounting experiences most of us will never have. But Megan O'Connell's wry new book is brutally honest about something commonplace: pregnancy.
Childbirth is sometimes treated like a specialty interest for women, like ceramics or cross country skiing. You know the contours, vaguely, but you wouldn't seek out information unless you were thinking about doing the thing yourself. Obviously, when it comes to motherhood, this is deeply dumb: Someone gave birth to each of us, probably while
