INSIDE/OUT

A mind-altering, mood-bending, back-breaking, panic-inducing, irrationally ecstatic story of giving birth

INSIDE/OUT is a joyful, trenchant memoir about exactly how and why motherhood transforms women. Fusing the reflective power of the essay with the emotional impact of the personal narrative, LISA CATHERINE HARPER examines the total transformation of motherhood—from the physical to the political. Her story of one seemingly ordinary journey, from conception through her daughter’s first year, becomes a reflection on the clarity of mind and heart that this extraordinary experience can bring. INSIDE/OUT offers readers a new way of thinking about the radical biological, emotional, and cultural changes of pregnancy, and it shows exactly why motherhood—and its literature—is not a limited, marginal experience but something with resonance, which alters the core of human experience.