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A review by karnaconverse
This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman
5.0
this lovely life is an intimate look inside a mother's mind that encourages readers to consider how the moral and ethical obligations our medical community has to save lives play out in real life.
Vicki Forman writes honestly and intelligently about her wish to "let her babies go"--twins Evan and Ellie were born at twenty-three weeks gestation--and the process she worked through in coming to terms with the lives they'd been given. In 10 chapters, she takes readers through an eight-year journey where she learns that "even a short life is a whole life."
At times, a sad read that I found hard to stop thinking about but overall, a thoughtful commentary about the sanctity of life and death.
Vicki Forman writes honestly and intelligently about her wish to "let her babies go"--twins Evan and Ellie were born at twenty-three weeks gestation--and the process she worked through in coming to terms with the lives they'd been given. In 10 chapters, she takes readers through an eight-year journey where she learns that "even a short life is a whole life."
At times, a sad read that I found hard to stop thinking about but overall, a thoughtful commentary about the sanctity of life and death.