false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248701392m/6650475.jpg 6650475 1 Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie at twenty-three weeks gestation and weighing just a pound at birth. During the delivery, she begged the doctors to “let her babies go”–she knew all too well that at twenty three weeks they could very well die, and if they survived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died just four days later; her son survived and is indeed multiply-disabled. Winner of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference Bakeless Prize in Creative Nonfiction, This Lovely Life tells, with brilliant intensity, of what became of the Forman family after the birth of the twins with brilliant intensity–the harrowing medical interventions, ethical considerations involving the sanctity of life and death. In the end, the long-delayed first steps of a five-year-old child will seem like the fist-pumping stuff of a triumph narrative. Forman’s intelligent voice gives a sensitive, nuanced rendering of her guilt, her anger, and her eventual acceptance in this portrait of a mother’s fierce love for her children. 6845047 7 2009 This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood total:3|5:2|4:1|3:0|2:0|1:0| 3 14 8 2 5 0 false false Tue Oct 20 19:42:12 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 19:44:08 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 16:39:14 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 16:43:15 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 17:14:26 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 17:14:50 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 19 21:20:20 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 21:20:20 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 05 19:33:59 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 19:33:59 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 15:08:11 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 15:08:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 29 15:39:15 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 15:39:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 27 06:28:44 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 06:28:44 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6650475