The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
Mothers often cling to single moments, small gestures, and specific  memories in order to grasp all that happens in the first blurry year of a  baby's life. InThe Blue Jay's Dance, writer Louise Erdrich has assembled a  photo album of snapshots such as these: the days and images that collectively  define the passion, ambivalence, yearnings, and satisfactions of carrying,  birthing, and nurturing a baby. &quot;Any sublime effort has its dark moments,&quot; says  Erdrich, referring to a rather bleak snapshot of mother isolation. &quot;Perhaps,  if anything, the meaning in this book for others may be this: Here is a job in  which it is not unusual to be, at the same instant, wildly joyous and  profoundly stressed.&quot;The Blue Jay's Danceis a fresh and masterful book that avoids all the  sticky clich&eacute;s while still managing to articulate the depths of mother-baby  love.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.