Knocked Up Knocked Down: Postcards of Miscarriage and Other Misadventures from the Brink of Parenthood

Monica Murphy LeMoine is used to writing postcards from strange faraway places. After years of traveling around the world with her Peace Corps sweetheart-turned-husband she finds herself on a blissfully ignorant journey toward new parenthood. But when the pregnancy ends before its supposed to Monica is abruptly launched into a different kind of world that nothing in life has prepared her for. It is up to Monica to navigate this strange land of almost-parenthood make sense of her own confusing grief for real and imagined lives lost and-ultimately-learn to move forward without someone she loves. A memoir told in postcards Knocked up Knocked Down is about finding solace in the most surprising places when life knocks you to the ground. And if you have ever lost a loved one this uplifting story will help you move upward too. Monica Murphy LeMoine worked all over the world with the Peace Corps and grew up in a family that never had time to sit around and wallow. She never comes close to that in this deeply and darkly funny anti-trauma memoir. Refusing to accept the grief package defined by well-meaning counselors who said shed never recover this book calmly and firmly replies bull#@%&! -Christina Gombar prize-winning author Literary Editor for Exhale and reviewer for Bookslut and London Review of Books.