Labor Day

“Beautiful, heart-wrenching” personal stories of giving birth by Lauren Groff, Julia Glass, Dani Shapiro, Cristina Henriquez, Cheryl Strayed, and many more ( Booklist ). In Labor Day , you’ll read about women determined to give birth naturally and others begging for epidurals; women who pushed for hours and women whose labors were over practically before they’d started; women giving birth to twins and to ten-pound babies. These women give birth in the hospital, at home, in bathtubs, and, yes, ev