{"product_id":"this-lovely-life-9780547232751","title":"This Lovely Life","description":"Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks' gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to \"let her babies go\" -- she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and, if they survived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died just four days later; her son survived and was indeed multiply disabled: blind, nonverbal, and dependent on a feeding tube. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Lovely Life\u003c\/em\u003e tells, with brilliant intensity, of what became of the Forman family after the birth of the twins -- the harrowing medical interventions and ethical considerations involving the sanctity of life and death. In the end, the longdelayed first steps of a five-year-old child will seem like the fist-pumping stuff of a triumph narrative. Forman's intelligent voice gives a sensitive, nuanced rendering of her guilt, her anger, and her eventual acceptance in this portrait of a mother's fierce love for her children. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForman, Vicki:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eVICKI FORMAN's work has appeared in the Seneca Review and the Santa Monica Review as well as in the anthologies Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs, This Day: Diaries from American Women, and Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined. She lives in La Canada, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615408423186,"sku":"9780547232751","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d62d0fd5-95a1-4984-adaf-9d4f371fa6f0.jpg?v=1758094873","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-lovely-life-9780547232751","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}