Things That Helped: On Postpartum Depression
by Jessica Friedmann /
2018 / English / PDF
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Things That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian
writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In
each essay she focuses on a separate totemic object-from pho to red
lips to the musician Anohni-to tell a story that is both deeply
personal and culturally resonant. Drawing on critical theory,
popular culture, and her own experience, Friedmann's wide-ranging
essays touch on class, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as
motherhood, creativity, and mental illness. Occasionally
confrontational, but always powerfully moving and beautifully
observed, Things That Helped charts her return into the world: a
slow and complex process of reassembling what depression fractured,
and sometimes broke.
Things That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian
writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In
each essay she focuses on a separate totemic object-from pho to red
lips to the musician Anohni-to tell a story that is both deeply
personal and culturally resonant. Drawing on critical theory,
popular culture, and her own experience, Friedmann's wide-ranging
essays touch on class, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as
motherhood, creativity, and mental illness. Occasionally
confrontational, but always powerfully moving and beautifully
observed, Things That Helped charts her return into the world: a
slow and complex process of reassembling what depression fractured,
and sometimes broke.