She Looks Just Like You

After ten years of talking about having children two years of trying (and failing) to conceive and one shot of donor sperm for her partner Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months as her partner became the biological mom-to-be Miller became . . . what? Mommys little helper? A faux dad? As a midwestern station wagondriving stay-at-home momand as a nonbiological lesbian motherMiller both defines and defies the norm. Like new parents everywhere she wrestled with the anxieties and challenges of first-time parenthood but experienced pregnancy and birth only vicariously. Part love story part comedy part quest Millers candid and often humorous memoir is a much-needed cultural roadmap for becoming a parent even when the usual categories do not fit.