Things That Helped On Postpartum Depression
Things That Helped On Postpartum Depression by Jessica Friedmann is a memoir in essays published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on April 10, 2018. This 272-page book presents Friedmann’s journey through recovery from postpartum depression, using a collection of personal essays that explore her experiences and reflections. Each essay centers on a specific object, weaving together personal narratives with broader cultural themes.
Readers will find that Friedmann’s essays delve into various topics, including motherhood, mental illness, and the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality. The writing is both personal and culturally resonant, drawing on critical theory and popular culture to enrich her storytelling. Through her exploration of totemic objects, Friedmann charts a complex process of healing and reassembling her life after the challenges posed by depression.
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Jessica Friedmann navigates her recovery from postpartum depression in a wide-ranging collection of personal essays
Things That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann’s recovery from postpartum depression. In each essay she focuses on a separate totemic object—from pho red lips to the musician Anohni—to tell a story that is both deeply personal and culturally resonant. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and her own experience, Friedmann’s wide-ranging essays touch on class, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as motherhood, creativity, and mental illness. Occasionally confrontational, but always powerfully moving and beautifully observed, Things That Helped charts her return into the world: a slow and complex process of reassembling what depression fractured, and sometimes broke.
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