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"In this honest memoir, May recounts how she came to feel connected with her body again. It's a moving work for new moms about a subject that is often overlooked in conversations about postpartum depression." ―Real Simple

Molly Caro May grapples with questions of grief and rage as she undergoes several unexpected health issues after the birth of her first child. Body Full of Stars both reveals deeper truths about how disconnected many modern women are from their bodies and celebrates the greatest story of all time: mothers and daughters, partners and co-parents, and the feminine power surging beneath it all.
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"If you or someone you love is experiencing postpartum depression, pick up this book. The isolation the author felt after the birth of her child made her realize how little acknowledgement society gives to the mental burdens placed on new moms." —Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping

"In this honest memoir, May recounts how she came to feel connected with her body again. It's a moving work for new moms about a subject that is often overlooked in conversations about postpartum depression." —Real Simple, a Best Book of the Year

"What a beautiful, heart–filled, and honest account of motherhood and womanhood overall. We need more brave voices like Molly Caro May's." —Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, creators of The Business of Being Born and authors of Your Best Birth

"Her brutally honest account is both deeply personal and comfortingly universal. She doesn’t shy away from the pain—emotional, physical, cultural, generational—of what she calls her 'passage into motherhood' . . . Her best, clearest, most lyrical writing practically dances off the page when she’s describing her love for her daughter." —PureWow

"Oh, you thought motherhood was all sweetness and light? Then this book is here, finally, to set you straight . . . I have never read anything so honest about the transition into motherhood before . . . Everyone who reads this book will also benefit from a generous, accurate, and hopeful story that ends not with a happily ever after but with honesty, dignity, and strength in the face of life’s ongoing challenges, whether we are mothering our children, or just ourselves." —The Rumpus

"Grapples with questions of love, grief, and healing as she undergoes several unexpected health issues after the birth of her first child." —Kerri Jarema, Bustle

"May’s writing is intensely, beautifully visceral and she brings a new perspective to the postpartum period." —Book Riot

"In this raw and lyrical book, the author holds nothing back. From the blinding rages to the blackest emotional abysses, she records all with an eloquence that is both powerful and restorative . . . A searingly eloquent memoir." —Kirkus Reviews

"Her healing memoir unabashedly begins a long–neglected conversation about postpartum rage and the power of reconnecting with your body that many a mom will appreciate." —Pregnancy & Newborn

"If there was ever a person who could express through her tender use of language, the pain, upset and rage that so many new mothers feel in the dark, it’s Molly Caro–May." —Mama Glow

"Radiant. Bursting with wisdom and wit, raw with honesty, full of the truth. This book is nothing short of remarkable, life affirming, and breathtaking." —Mira Ptacin, author of Poor Your Soul

"This book is an ancient call from our first mothers to connect to our bodies—for our own good and for the good of humanity. Through sharing her fierce and shattering story, Molly May goes straight to the pelvis of female rage and echoes the legacy of the sacred feminine. It is healing, illuminated." —Laura Munson, New York Times bestselling author of This Is Not The Story You Think It Is...

"This is the biggest story of humanity that is rarely told—the way in which birth isn’t just the passage for our existence on the planet, but how it breaks, transforms, and emboldens women worldwide. Molly May’s unflinching telling of her own rage and reconstitution after birth is beyond brave. It’s paradigm–shifting." —Courtney E. Martin, author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection Harms Young Women

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  • Targeted online outreach to outlets (print, online, radio) covering books for Mother’s Day
  • Potential op-ed placement on postpartum rage/healing in publications such as WSJ, NYT, NPR, etc
  • Social media outreach on Instagram/Twitter/Goodreads to new mothers/postpartum healing groups/etc.
  • Author promotion through website at http://www.mollycaromay.com Event Schedule:

  • Author events throughout Montana
  • Montana Book Festival

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Counterpoint; Reprint edition (April 9, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1640092072
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1640092075
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.74 x 8.28 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings

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Molly Caro May is a writer whose work explores body, place and the foreign. She grew up in in five different countries and now lives in Montana with her husband and children. She teaches writing workshops across the country, though once cut her teeth as a fruit-picker and artist's model. Her memoir The Map of Enough was called "addictive" by Elle Magazine. She is co-founder of the Thunderhead Writers’ Collective and received a writing fellowship at the Taft Nicholson Environmental Humanities Center, where she wrote the first draft of her second book, Body Full of Stars.

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Customers find the writing quality of the book beautiful, honest, and deep. They also say the book is validated, deeply understood, and held to a truer reality.

"...May has a poetic way of telling the raw truth. I learned a lot about my own writing by reading this." Read more

"I read this beautiful and powerful memoir in just one sitting. I could not put it down...." Read more

"...This book is more personal than instructive. I hope women and moms find it helpful." Read more

"...Written with the most beautiful prose, May invites readers into her own story of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, of body, spirit, heart, and mind..." Read more

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Customers find the book profound, heartfelt, and brave.

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"...Her grace and rawness as she weaves together her personal story with the timeless story of so many women, men, and families, illuminated for me ever..." Read more

"...The book at once feels like a brave shout of a whole, inspired and empowered woman and the most obvious truth you can't believe has never been part..." Read more

"Love love love!!!! Heartfelt. Real. Each part of her healing journey felt like I healed a part of myself too." Read more

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Customers find the book's factual accuracy beautiful, necessary, and true. They also say they feel validated, deeply understood, and held to a truer reality.

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5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, necessary and true
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2019
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I picked up this book as "research", but devoured it, couldn't put it down. So many of the insights resonated from her thoughts of what pregnancy and motherhood would be like in comparison to what it is actually like, to the distance between partners that too often arises out of this thing we think will draw us closer than ever, and especially the female rage. I stuck sticky notes on many of the pages to remember. I cried at least every 3 pages. I think there is so much to gain from this book: a look at our own feminity, making a place for our womanhood in the world, healing out birth stories, questioning why noone talks about common disorders after birth (in this case incontinence, but i find this so true with all maternal mental health issues, as well as sex drive and long term bleeding post birth). So much of womanhood is swept under the rug and once that is acknowledged we can feel entitled to our rage - I know I have. The book calls us to soften our rage rather than act it out again and again. I'd recommend this book to all my mom friends and to any birth worker.

May has a poetic way of telling the raw truth. I learned a lot about my own writing by reading this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I read this beautiful and powerful memoir in just one sitting
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2018
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I read this beautiful and powerful memoir in just one sitting. I could not put it down. May has woven together a narrative that is at once timeless--the story of mothers and daughters and daughters and mothers--and at the same time completely revolutionary. While telling us her own body story from childhood to motherhood, May digs deeply into questions of gender, body image, language, feminism, and what it means to have and to experience the world in and through the miraculous female form. May's story opens up a long-awaited public conversation about the postpartum journey, that for so many women is far from the glowing image of a mother and child in a mutual embrace of adoration. She speaks honestly about her own struggles with incontinence, prolapse, thyroid dysfunction, and postpartum rage. Her book is full of both dark and light, as she discloses some of her most painful moments as a mother battling what feels like her body's complete brokenness and betrayal. Through May's truth telling, we feel a kinship and intimacy with her and an invitation to slow down and observe and explore our own relationship with our bodies and the connection between our emotional, physical, and spiritual landscapes, and to emerge with a newfound reverence for it all. I could not recommend this book more.
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Beth A. Orchard
4.0 out of 5 stars Gritty, Challenging Story of Embracing Our Sacred Feminine
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018
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I found this book to be a good one for women and moms who wrestle with postpartum and feminine anger, depression and anxiety. I have struggled through many things postpartum but not prolapse. I've had mm y own weight, diastasis and mental health issues that made me feel broken. I do find that we have a long way to go when it comes to supporting women and the sacred feminine with regards to pelvic floor health.

Tami Kent and her books helped me a great deal through two pregnancies. This book is more personal than instructive. I hope women and moms find it helpful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Written with the most beautiful prose, May invites readers into her own story ...
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2018
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Molly Caro May's newest book, Body Full of Stars, gripped me from the first page. Her grace and rawness as she weaves together her personal story with the timeless story of so many women, men, and families, illuminated for me ever more deeply the challenge and beauty of what it means to be human. Written with the most beautiful prose, May invites readers into her own story of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, of body, spirit, heart, and mind while opening space for a conversation that has long been in the shadows. To become a mother, to be a woman, is to own all of our feelings, not just the vibrant shininess of love of having mothered a child. It's also the rage around what is and what has been, and the disassociation from what we knew before. It is a story about courage and truth and compassion. I forced myself to put this book down and wait, because I didn't want it to end. Imagining May putting the pieces of this book, and of her story, together, gives me the willies, as this type of healing, and understanding of a journey, doesn't come easy to many of us. I will read this book again and again.
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Margo Seely
5.0 out of 5 stars I wholeheartedly recommend this book!
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Reading this book felt like the last piece in a puzzle clicking into place. There was so much in this book that spoke directly to me and my experience as a new mom, and answered questions that hadn't even completely formed themselves in my mind. The way May wrote about her own experience gave me permission to feel all of my own emotions about being a new mom in the world we live in, and invited me to explore my own relationship with my mom, my grandmothers, and even got me investigating generations further back. Besides barely being able to put the book down --the writing is really beautiful and just carries you along-- the message, the content, filled a hole in the story I was making for myself as a new mom. The book at once feels like a brave shout of a whole, inspired and empowered woman and the most obvious truth you can't believe has never been part of the conversation before.
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Conor Smith
3.0 out of 5 stars Good, not great
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2023
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I think this should have been titled Incontinence and my Passage into Motherhood: Body full of stars. I wanted to hear more about her rage episodes and how she got through them but this book was more about her internal body struggles/healing than actual female rage.
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Laci Hill
5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2019
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This book healed me. I will be reading it again and again and then rereading all my highlights. Every woman should own this book. I felt validated, deeply understood, and yet held to a truer reality of the beautiful tension and relationship between the feminine and masculine. I repeat, EVERY WOMAN should own this book. Thank you to the author for vulnerably inviting us into her and her family’s journey of her self acceptance and blossoming. Just a stunning book I will treasure and have my children read one day.
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Paige St. Cyr
5.0 out of 5 stars Most profound book I've ever read
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This book knocked me backwards in such a good way. The warmth, honesty and depth that Molly writes with sears right to the soul and affirmed my lived experience while also dragging me down a road of deeper healing. I have bought and given away 4 copies already. Could not recommend more.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful written, raw, and relatable
Reviewed in Canada on March 24, 2019
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I love the honesty the author shared her journey into motherhood - the joys and the darkness. Explores the themes of body image, mother-daughter relationships, self love, and the relationship between the sexes. Insightfully written, and a joy to read.
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