Motherhood: A Confession

by Natalie Carnes

A meditation on the conversions, betrayals, and divine revelations of motherhood.

What if Augustine's Confessions had been written not by a man, but by a mother? How might her tales of desire, temptation, and transformation differ from his? In this memoir, Natalie Carnes describes giving birth to a daughter and beginning a story of conversion strikingly unlike Augustine's-even as his journey becomes a surprising companion to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150360831X
• ISBN13: 9781503608313
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.6"