Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
This is the latest Jodi Picoult book I have read & loved. All of her books have been great so far, but I really identified with this one in a lot of ways.
It’s about a woman named Paige O’Toole who leaves home after some issues w/ a high school pregnancy, etc. to find the mother who left she & her father when she was young. Instead she falls in love and ends up being pregnant and it really delves into all the scary things that a woman goes through when she’s pregnant and a new mother. How incredibly difficult it is and how it affects your marriage.. She is married to a Dr. and has helped work as a waitress to put him through medical school rather than fulfilling her dreams of art school.. so she ends up feeling like she’s lost herself and this is basically the story of how she tried (sometimes failed and sometimes succeeded) to find herself again without totally turning her back on her family.
It’s heartwrenching and raw and I really enjoyed it. Try it out!