"A powerful poetic reckoning with motherhood and religion." —Kirkus Reviews“Poignant. Provocative. Downright hilarious. Heather Lanier is an incendiary psalmist and we love her for it.” —Kate Bowler, New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved and Duke University professorHow do we reconcile our love with our grief? Seek peace in a violent world? Find compassion ...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceKate Bowler's The Everything Happens Book Club Pick!Award-winning writer Heather Lanier's memoir about raising a child with a rare syndrome, defying the tyranny of normal, and embracing parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways.**Like many women of her generation, Heather Lanier did everything by the book when she was expecting her first child. She ate organic foods, recited affi...

Award-winning writer Heather Lanier's memoir about raising a child with a rare syndrome, defying the tyranny of normal, and embracing parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways.Like many women of her generation, writer Heather Lanier did everything by the book when she was expecting her first child. She ate organic foods, recited affirmations and drew up a birth plan for an unmedicated labour in the hopes that she could create a Supe...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceKate Bowler's The Everything Happens Book Club Pick!Award-winning writer Heather Lanier's memoir about raising a child with a rare syndrome, defying the tyranny of normal, and embracing parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways.**Like many women of her generation, Heather Lanier did everything by the book when she was expecting her first child. She ate organic foods, recited affi...