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How My "Distressed Baby" Defied the Odds, Shamed a CEO, and Taught Me the Essence of Love, Heartbreak, and Miracles
Bloomsbury
July 2015
On Sale: July 14, 2015
320 pages
ISBN: 1620409917
EAN: 9781620409916
Kindle: B00UX2UR3U
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Deanna Fei was just five-and-a-half months pregnant when she
inexplicably went into labor. Minutes later, she met her
tiny baby who clung to life support inside a glass box. Fei
was forced to confront terrifying questions: How to be the
mother of a child she could lose at any moment. Whether her
daughter would survive another day--and whether she should.
But as she watched her daughter fight for her life, Fei
discovered the power of the mother-child bond at its most
elemental.
A year after she brought her daughter home
from the hospital, the CEO of AOL--her husband's
employer--blamed the beautiful, miraculously healthy little
girl for a cut in employee benefits and attached a price tag
to her life, using a phrase, "distressed babies," that set
off a national firestorm.
Girl in Glass is the
riveting story of one child's harrowing journey and a
powerful distillation of parenthood. With incandescent prose
and an unflinching eye, Fei explores the value of a human
life: from the spreadsheets wielded by cost-cutting
executives to the insidious notions of risk surrounding
modern pregnancy; from the wondrous history of medical
innovation in the care of premature infants to contemporary
analyses of what their lives are worth; and finally, to the
depths of her own struggle to make sense of her daughter's
arrival in the world. Above all, Girl in Glass is a
luminous testament to how love takes hold when a birth
defies our fundamental beliefs about how life is supposed to
begin.
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