Make sure to consider the readiness of your recipient to consider this possibility. Trigger warning: This book ends with the birth of a healthy newborn. I will call you and I will keep calling until you feel like talking. What to Express in Your Card: I am thinking of you without cease. Why We Love This Gift: We love this gift because it so beautifully lays out loss and longing. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don't-but you go on. Maureen Corrigan of NPR s Fresh Air named it one of the best books of 2008, about a 'nightmare that hasnt been quite categorized. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. An Exact Replica Of A Figment Of My Imagination is a 2008 memoir by the novelist Elizabeth McCracken of a full-term pregnancy that ended in a stillbirth. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir.
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