This Lovely Life

Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks' gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to "let her babies go" -- she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and, if they survived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died just four days later; her son survived and was indeed multiply disabled: blind, nonverbal, and dependent on a feeding tube.

Author: Vicki Forman
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 07/23/2009
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780547232751

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2009 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2009

About the Author
Forman, Vicki: - VICKI FORMAN's work has appeared in the Seneca Review and the Santa Monica Review as well as in the anthologies Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs, This Day: Diaries from American Women, and Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined. She lives in La Canada, California.