Book Launch: Things That Helped by Jessica Friedmann

In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postpartum depression after the birth of her son, Owen. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and personal experience, her wide-ranging essays touch on class, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as motherhood, creativity, and mental illness.

Occasionally confronting, but always powerfully moving and beautifully observed, Things That Helped charts Jessica’s return into the world: a slow and complex process of reassembling what depression fractured and sometimes broke.

Recent research suggests that one in ve women who have given birth will experience postpartum depression, and yet there are relatively few women telling their stories publicly. Things That Helped is a candid, perceptive, and intelligent account, characterised by strikingly literary prose.

Things That Helped

Jessica Friedmann

RRP: $29.99 Pub date: 3 Apr 2017 Category: Literary essays Cover view

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