description: Mothers often cling to single moments, small gestures, and specific memories in order to grasp all that happens in the first blurry year of a baby's life. In The Blue Jay's Dance, writer Louise Erdrich has assembled a photo album of snapshots such as these: the days and images that collectively define the passion, ambivalence, yearnings, and satisfactions of carrying, birthing, and nurturing a baby. "Any sublime effort has its dark moments," says Erdrich, referring to a rather bleak snapshot of mother isolation. "Perhaps, if anything, the meaning in this book for others may be this: Here is a job in which it is not unusual to be, at the same instant, wildly joyous and profoundly stressed." The Blue Jay's Dance is a fresh and masterful book that avoids all the sticky clichés while still managing to articulate the depths of mother-baby love. 
language: English
title: Bluejay's Dance & Other Essays
titlecomplete: Bluejay's Dance & Other Essays
genres: Nature, Parenting, Biography Memoir, Family, Writing, Nonfiction, Memoir, American, Essays, Womens
ratings_count: 1607
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers