Vacant Paradise & Birth Matters: Coming Attractions

By Maryann Yin 

Here are some handpicked titles from our New Books section. Want to include your book? Just read our Facebook Your New or Upcoming Book post. Don’t forget to include your title’s exact release date and a link.

Rose by Inga Muscio: “This book breaks new ground in answering a fundamental question in most feminist and antiracist writing: how do we identify, witness, and then recover from trauma—as individuals, as families, as communities, and as a country?” (March 2011)

Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin: “This book is a manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.” (March 2011)

This Vacant Paradise by Victoria Patterson: “A woman’s value is assessed by the blank perfection of her quantifiable desirability: dress size, cup size, the whiteness of her teeth. Trapped in the confines of her environment, 33-year-old Esther Wilson is determined to marry into the Newport elite but instead falls in love with free-thinking college professor Charlie. Their relationship inspires Ester to question her own beliefs and value system which leads her to embark on an alternate, unglamorous, and indefinable Journey of self-discovery.” (March 2011)