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What I Thought I Knew

A Memoir

By Cohen, Alice Eve

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A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possibleAt age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Alice tells her fiancé that she’s never been happier. And then the stomach pains begin. In her unflinchingly honest and ruefully witty voice, Alice nimbly carries us through her metamorphosis from a woman who has come to terms with infertility to one who struggles to love a heartbeat found in her womb – six months into a high-risk pregnancy. What I Thought I Knew is a page-turner filled with vivid characters, humor, and many surprises and twists of fate. With the suspense of a thriller and the intimacy of a diary, Cohen describes her unexpected journey through doubt, a broken medical system, and the hotly contested terrain of motherhood and family in today’s society. Timely and compelling, What I Thought I Knew will capture readers of memoirs such as Eat, Pray, Love; The Glass Castle; and A Three Dog Life.

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ISBN
978-0-67002-095-9
Publisher
Viking Adult


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Reviewed on May 11, 2009

Playwright Cohen feared the worst when she developed alarming symptoms-a large, hard lump in her lower abdomen, tenderness in her breasts, morning sickness, et. al. At 44, she was vulnerable to a host of deadly diseases. Apprehensive, she hurried to the hospital and received a startling diagnosis: pregnancy. With a fiancEe and an adoptive daughter, she is wholly unprepared for pregnancy, and, later, for parenting a daughter afflicted by a rare hormonal disease. Nonetheless, she comes to love her daughter, and, ultimately, to value her experience. Readers interested in the emotional hardships of pregnancy will relish this debut.-Lynne Maxwell, Villanova Univ. Sch. of Law Lib., PA Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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