Inspiration for New Parents

This week, a throw-back to my post on Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work. Cusk’s memoir was the book that started a long journey for me. Her intelligent analysis that was at the same time so deeply personal gave me a new script to take with me into motherhood. At a time when my voice suddenly felt so quiet and distant, Cusk gave me a language that was loud and clear: I could bring my pre-maternal self with me to this new and foreign land called motherhood.