And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

"The memoir industry runs increasingly on the unique, the superhuman and the grotesque. People climb mountains, escape kidnappers, visit heaven and report back. And Now We Have Everything shows how the most normal thing in the world – having an ordinary, healthy baby after an ordinary, healthy pregnancy – means being visited with all possible extremes of pain, fear and love. O’Connell renders this normal and horrific experience real, in both emotional sweep and brutal particulars."