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Holding Silvan a brief life

Wesolowska, Monica 1965- (Author).

Summary: In the opening of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for?observation" when he won't stop crying. Within days, Monica and her husband have been given the grimmest of prognoses for Silvan, and they must make a choice about his life. The story that follows is not a story of typical maternal heroism. There is no medical miracle here. Instead, we find the strangest of hopes. Certain of her choice, Monica must still ask herself at every step if she is loving Silvan as well as a mother can. The.

Record details

ISBN: 9780986000720 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0986000728 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (203 p.)
Publisher: New York : Hawthorne Books, 2013.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction by Erica Jong; Contents; Birth; Love Story; Making This Easier; I Hope Mommy Dies; Chasm; Panforte; A Choice; Confirmation; Distillation; We Climb; From A to Z; Battles; Chance of Regret; Holding Silvan; Breaking Plates; Seed Pearls; The Future; Goodbye, Little Man; First Night; Circuit Tester; Miracle Baby; Joy; Full Circles; Fledglings; Mutation; Crows; Sunshine; Acknowledgments.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.