New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Louise Erdrichâs moving meditation on the experience of motherhoodâthe first nonfiction work by one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.
Louise Erdrichâs first major work of nonfiction, The Blue Jayâs Dance, brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the acclaimed author experienced in the course of one twelveâmonth periodâfrom a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall. In exquisitely lyrical prose, Erdrich illuminates afresh the large and small events that every parent will recognize and appreciate.
âPregnancy, birth and caring for an infant inspire Erdrichâs reflections on being a woman, a mother and a writer in this affecting memoir of a daughterâs first years.ââPeople