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Love
Works Like This
(Hardcover - 2002)
“Is even
the most clenched heart capable of it?” Lauren
Slater asks about love, in this original, eloquent,
and illuminating book about how we discover what love
truly is. Slater, career-oriented and willfully autonomous,
charts her own personal journey and decision-making
process, starting with a list of the pros and cons,
about having a child. The cons are many, the pros
only one: “learning a new kind of love.”
But what will that love look like? How does one reconcile
the needs of the self with the demands of others?
How do couples go from the dyad that is a marriage
to the triad that is a family? And how can Slater
adjust to losing precious control of her own carefully
developed life?
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Slater’s complex
biological and psychological history also lies at the core
of this unique and yet strikingly universal story. One of
the first people ever to take Prozac, she chronicles the
impossibly conflicting advice regarding pregnancy and antidepressants,
and explains the rationale behind her eventual decision
to stop taking the medication during her first trimester.
This is Slater’s first encounter with self-sacrifice,
and for her a crossroad at which modern medicine and basic
human love meet.
Love Works Like This
is a richly written book by “an enormously poetic and
ebullient writer” (Elle magazine), an author who writes
with “beauty and bravery” (Los Angeles Times Book
Review) about falling in love, about growing into the ability
to put someone else’s life ahead of your own, and about
the rich rewards we can draw from the courage to exchange
one kind of happy life for another.
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