“The pregnancy continued not so much because I chose it … I sobbed, until I could sob no more, and a quiet defiance and resolution settled around me, holding it all.”
Author: Jennifer Case
Jennifer Case is the author of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood (Trinity University Press, 2024) and Sawbill: A Search for Place (University of New Mexico Press, 2018). Her essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Orion, Motherly, and Literary Mama, among others. You can find her at www.jenniferlcase.com.