"The Summer of my Amazing Luck" by Canadian author Miriam Toews (pronounced
Taves) has several positive and amusing breastfeeding references.

-- Jodine Chase


On 1/19/07 7:23 AM, "Amanda Fowle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This is really interesting thread. I'm going to
> compile a list of the books/authors recommended. I'm a
> big fiction reader, and I comment often to my husband
> how suprised I am how often breastfeeding is mentioned
> in the fiction I've read since my daughter was born.
> Was it always there and I didn't notice? Am I reading
> different types of books now? I think it's the former.
> 
> A fun "chick lit" that your daughter might like is _So
> What Do You Do all Day?_ by Amy Scheibe. (In it, a
> woman relactates!) Right now I'm reading _The Memory
> Keeper's Daughter_ by Kim Edwards. In it, a new mom
> breastfeeds in the 70s when, she says, it wasn't
> talked about. Very nicely done, imo.
> 
> Amanda Fowle
> LLL No. Austin
> 
> Amanda -- momma to Caroline, 5/31/05
> http://carolinebindel.blogspot.com & http://somanyjoys.com
> 
> 
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