An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

A memoir of two pregnancies, & two children: the first stillborn, the second a year later, healthy; both loved.

“She manages…the…complex task of delivering a grief memoir that fuses the immediacy readers crave from the genre with all the reflective, consoling depth of fiction.” Hepzibah Anderson, The Observer

“This is an intimate book….It is also a wildly important book.”  Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times

“Stunning…it is a triumph of her will and her writing that she has turned her tragedy into a literary gift.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)