Elisa Albert

This is such an honest book about one woman's experience with birth and post-partum depression. Ari has had a C-section and feels as if she did not really give birth to her son Walker. She is feeling alone, as she really doesn't have anyone who seems to understand her feelings about that, formula feeding, not getting any sleep and caring for her child.
The book is a little hard to read, as we are reading it like ambling thoughts that come into your brain and there is a lot of that. But isn't that how we all are? Just sometimes hard to follow.… (mais)

After Birth is a bit of a strange book. It's about Ari a year after she has given birth, but it also reflects on her pregnancy and her past friendships with women. She's not a likable character at all, she has a history of having issues with women, she hates them, and now she is suffering from postpartum depression and projecting her mothering views onto people. Ari is very isolated and is just looking for something to hold onto. There's lots of humor in the writing and honest feelings that I think most people can relate to some of them in some way. I loved how sometimes things didn't make sense and her logic was circular at times because that's what its like to have a mental illness, it doesn't have to make sense, its a rush unexplainable mess at times.… (mais)