Veteran journalist and columnist Judith Newman spent seven years and $70,000 on fertility treatments and, finally, at the age of 40, she became pregnant with twins. You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman is not only her account of having children later in life, but also about what happens to a marriage and the spirit, even when the most sought-after baby arrives. Wry, warm and brutally honest, this is the book for any woman who has awakened at 3am to the insistent shrieks of her baby and thought: I'm too old for this.
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Self-indulgent, harmful
3 May 2007
By Jane's daughter
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Newman goes for the big laugh and that's fine (I laughed, too, sometimes). But her page-long rant about adoption was disgusting and truly harmful. Perpetuating negative stereotypes about adopted children ("horribly damaged") is unconscionable. After all the chemicals and hormones and medical intervention it takes to create her babies, she's worried about the unknown gene pool of an adopted child?!
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If this book is supposed to be edgy, funny, and insightful, it fails miserably. What I read between the lines is very painful account by a very unpleasant, sad, superficial woman who tries to make her life look interesting and brave. The writing is mediocre at best. The whole thing smacks of half-truth upon half-truth, just an attempt to sell a book. But what do you expect from someone who makes a living interviewing celebrities? She must have mistakenly thought she was a celebrity too and that we'd want to read about her. And I agree with other reviewers -- this book makes me worried for the author's kids. And shudder for her friends. Shallowness, callousness, and an absence of grace and class are what come through. I'd look elsewhere if you want a truly good read about the self-doubt involved in raising a child, like Annie Lamott's "Operating Instructions" a book that is original, funny, and deep. Don't waste your time or money here with Ms. Newman's weird unhappy life. Pleased to see it is on the remainder pile for one penny.
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