Brona: a memoir

Mara Hill adores being a midwife. Each birth she's attended has shaped her, changed her, and made grow into the professional she is. She finally gets the chance to have her own child and is more than up to the task. Relishing and fantasizing about a beautiful homebirth with her fellow midwives she fights to protect her vision as her pregnancy goes long overdue. Tragedy strikes when her baby dies in early labor and she must deliver her son stillborn. Her life spirals down into the darkness leaving friendships, joy, and even her profession, by the wayside. Struggling with newly destructive tendencies and suicidal fantasies, Mara must fight to stay alive. In the end, she prevails by the sharing of love within the community of bereaved families and by the watchful, loving, eye of her husband.

This memoir provides a social commentary on the culture war on birth, but more importantly it gives a voice to the silent cries of mother's everywhere experiencing infant loss and unabashedly offers validation for the lives of their lost, cherished, children. It is raw, emotional, and even has a humorous side if a dry and dark one.*