The Gift of a Child
Author: Mary Ann Thompson
Translator: Se-mi Kim
Publisher: Munyechulpansa
Hardcover | 270 pages | 195*136mm
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About This Book
Thousands of women who want to bear children but cannot, endure
tremendous emotional, physical, and financial costs when they explore
alternative approaches. This is the heartening story of two women who
chose a very personal option. The author, a former protestant minister
married to a physicist, decides to bear a child for her longtime friend
Alycia, who is infertile. She writes movingly about her pregnancy and
the child’s birth, but is quite unprepared for the distancing of the
couples, which is compounded by the heart-wrenching sense of loss at
giving up her newborn daughter. What had begun with the good intentions
of two compassionate women becomes a moral and spiritual crisis for both
mothers. This crisis is resolved a year later in an astonishing
encounter in which they explore their profoundly complex emotions. They
come to accept each other’s journey and celebrate the love of their
daughter. An inspiring story of a wondrous gift of love and compassion,
told with clear-eyed, simple eloquence, by an author uniquely qualified
to examine the moral and spiritual issues.
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