Rocking the Babies: A Novel
In a neonatal intensive care unit in Ohio, two women from different backgrounds grow closer through the work of caring for fragile infants. Motherhood, loss, and class difference gradually turn into a quiet form of solidarity.
Work Information
Two women come to understand each other in the room where fragile babies are kept alive.
As two women with different backgrounds and temperaments work side by side among premature infants, they begin to change how they see one another. The novel also folds in family loss and the emotional weight of grief, showing how care work can bind people together.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 1995-11-01
- Pages
- 272 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.9 x 1.47 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780140232547
- ISBN-10
- 0140232540
- Price
- 13508 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
Two Black women working as volunteer grandmothers for sick babies at a hospital feel a mutual distrust when they first meet but come to feel a great need for each other
Reviews
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Excellent book, an easy read and very interesting.
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Awesome story, fast shipper I first read this book about ten years ago, and have NEVER forgotten it!!!
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One of the BEST most memorable books I hav ever read.
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Linda Raymond has done an excellent job with her beautiful characters in Rocking Babies. She tells a poignant story of love and grief as we follow the "grandmas" who care for the most vulnerable.