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Title:

Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year, the
 

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Genres:

Contemporary
Non-Fiction
Ethnic: Native American

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1995-04-01 Harpercollins  

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Blurb: 
Mothers often cling to single moments, small gestures, and specific memories in order to grasp all that happens in the first blurry year of a baby"s life. In The Blue Jay"s Dance, writer Louise Erdrich has assembled a photo album of snapshots such as these: the days and images that collectively define the passion, ambivalence, yearnings, and satisfactions of carrying, birthing, and nurturing a baby. "Any sublime effort has its dark moments," says Erdrich, referring to a rather bleak snapshot of mother isolation. "Perhaps, if anything, the meaning in this book for others may be this: Here is a job in which it is not unusual to be, at the same instant, wildly joyous and profoundly stressed." The Blue Jay"s Dance is a fresh and masterful book that avoids all the sticky clich