Abigail Leonard

Four Mothers (eBook, ePUB)

An Intimate Journey through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the tradition of Lisa Taddeo's Three Women and Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road, Abigail Leonard's immersive, page-turning reporting follows four women from around the world as they embark on the first year of motherhood Utterly moving and addictively readable from page one, the book begins with the pregnancies and labor experiences of Anna in Finland, Tsukasa in Japan, Sarah in the U.S., and Chelsea in Kenya. The year that followed was an experience both remarkably unique for each woman, and remarkably universal. Leonard takes readers inside their relationships, families, and interactions with employers, the healthcare system, and the social safety net, weaving in deeply researched background on each country's history, political priorities, and cultural norms that influence the women's lives. As debates surrounding paid leave, universal daycare, and national healthcare rage in the US and around the world, Four Mothers offers a uniquely intimate, moving portrait of what those policies mean in the everyday lives of parents. By turns enraging and full of hope, this on-the-ground yet global look at new motherhood today offers readers - especially new or future parents - unprecedented context for the innumerable different ways we could create our family lives, to help us more expansively imagine the possibilities for the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643756561
• Artikelnr.: 72320425

Autorenporträt

Abigail Leonard is an award-winning international reporter and news producer, currently based in Washington D.C. and before that in Tokyo, where she was a frequent contributor to NPR, Time Magazine, and New York Times video. Her stories have also appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Vox. Before she moved to Japan, she wrote and produced long-form news documentaries as a staff producer for PBS, ABC and Al Jazeera America, and was a lead writer for "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" and "The War Room with Jennifer Granholm." Stories she reported have earned a national Emmy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, an Association of Health Care Journalists Award, a National Headliner Award, and a James Beard Foundation Media Award Nomination.