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Praise for Things That Helped: 'Things That Helped is a beautiful book--heartfelt, fiercely intelligent, and urgent. It is a powerful affirmation of friendship, family, art, and love, and how these things might shape a life, and give it strength, and it does not shy away from the complex, often painful, and sometimes bloody experiences of womanhood and motherhood. It is fascinating, luscious, and engrossing, and, despite its difficult subject matter, an absolute joy to read. --Fiona Wright, author of Small Acts of Disappearance Praise for Things That Helped: [Friedmann] never succumbs to sentimentality in these pages even when it's obvious how much she loves (or has learned to love) her son and how fortunate she feels for all that she has. Well-rendered essays that make readers think and feel deeply' --Kirkus Reviews Praise for Things That Helped: By carefully and deliberately describing the pain, dissociation, discomfort, alienation, and other forms of havoc she experienced after birthing her son, Friedmann legitimates and recognizes the physical, psychological, and political features of postpartum depression --Booklist

"Praise for Things That Helped: ""'Things That Helped is a beautiful book--heartfelt, fiercely intelligent, and urgent. It is a powerful affirmation of friendship, family, art, and love, and how these things might shape a life, and give it strength, and it does not shy away from the complex, often painful, and sometimes bloody experiences of womanhood and motherhood. It is fascinating, luscious, and engrossing, and, despite its difficult subject matter, an absolute joy to read."" --Fiona Wright, author of Small Acts of Disappearance Praise for Things That Helped: ""[Jessica Friedmann has left safety behind and walked into something vast--a self, a world, on the verge of unravelling yet exhilarating and full of love. This book runs deep and wide. It's alive with arresting images, with thoughts too big, sometimes too dangerous, to pin down."" --Maria Tumarkin, author of Axiomatic Praise for Things That Helped: ""Her transportive writing will break you open and fill you anew."" --Anna Spargo-Ryan, author of The Paper House"

"Praise for Things That Helped: ""'Things That Helped is a beautiful book--heartfelt, fiercely intelligent, and urgent. It is a powerful affirmation of friendship, family, art, and love, and how these things might shape a life, and give it strength, and it does not shy away from the complex, often painful, and sometimes bloody experiences of womanhood and motherhood. It is fascinating, luscious, and engrossing, and, despite its difficult subject matter, an absolute joy to read."" --Fiona Wright, author of Small Acts of Disappearance Praise for Things That Helped: ""[Friedmann] never succumbs to sentimentality in these pages even when it's obvious how much she loves (or has learned to love) her son and how fortunate she feels for all that she has. Well-rendered essays that make readers think and feel deeply'"" --Kirkus Reviews Praise for Things That Helped: ""By carefully and deliberately describing the pain, dissociation, discomfort, alienation, and other forms of havoc she experienced after birthing her son, Friedmann legitimates and recognizes the physical, psychological, and political features of postpartum depression"" --Booklist"

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Jessica Friedmann is a writer, editor, and independent scholar. Her first essay collection, Things That Helped, was published by Scribe (2017) and FSG (2018).

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