Deft defiant . . . accurate.The New York Times Book Review Karp . . . gets it all on paper for a whole generation.Kate Millett A landmark streamofconsciousness ... » 

Deft defiant . . . accurate.The New York Times Book Review Karp . . . gets it all on paper for a whole generation.Kate Millett A landmark streamofconsciousness novel for the womens movement in 1969. Shuttling between pastand present during fourteen hours of labor the thirtytwoyearold unmarriedprotagonist revisits family and motherdaughter conflicts problematicrelationships with men and identity questions. Lila Karp hijacks theexperience of giving birth to present searing meditations on a feministpolitics of the body. Previously the director of the Princeton UniversityWomens Center Lila Karp is a psychotherapist living in Santa MonicaCalifornia. «