Author Event: Shayne Terry, "Leave: A Postpartum Account"

Join us for the Philadelphia launch of Shayne Terry's memoir Leave: A Postpartum Account. Shayne will be in conversation with Philly-based author Jiordan Castle, author of the young adult memoir Disappearing Act. The two will discuss their books, the craft of writing about real people, and resisting the conventions of traditional memoir. Literary friendship will be abundant, and refreshments will be served.

More about Leave: Shayne Terry’s fourth trimester is not going as planned. Instead of bonding with her new baby, she’s stuck on the couch with a third-degree tear, barely able to walk. When the women in her family show up to help, they come bearing family secrets and old wounds that also need repair. Begun as notes on Terry’s phone documenting a parental leave gone awry, Leave examines a healing process complicated by capitalism, intergenerational trauma, and a healthcare system with a long history of devaluing women. This powerful postpartum account treats birth as a portal, one that can connect us to a lineage of pain, joy, death, and life.

You can order Leave: A Postpartum Account here. We will have copies for sale at the event, too, where Shayne will sign. More information about this event, the authors, and the book can be found on H&H's website.

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