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Can You Feel This?

By: Julie Orringer
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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In the chaos of a maternity ward, memories of tragedy and grief come flooding back for an anxious mother-to-be as she struggles to balance her child’s needs with her own healing.

Rushed into an emergency cesarean section, a woman finds herself in the same hospital where her suicidal mother died. She’s buried the trauma of her mother’s last hours--and also the dread that she might be just as vulnerable to breaking. As the new mother relives one crisis in the midst of another, prize-winning author Julie Orringer turns the joyous event of birth into a harrowing, poignant short story.

Julie Orringer’s Can You Feel This? is part of Inheritance, a collection of five stories about secrets, unspoken desires, and dangerous revelations between loved ones. Each piece can be listened to in a single setting. By yourself, behind closed doors, or shared with someone you trust.
©2019 Julie Orringer (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Anthologies Short Stories Family Life Literary Fiction Medical Psychological Women's Fiction Fiction Exciting
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Powerful, dangerous, heartwarming!

This really is stunning writing and narration! Very unusually, this powerful short story of a pregnant woman’s hospital ordeal is told in the 2nd person: “Blood ... The doctor told you this would happen ... You panic”. It creates an intimate immediacy - this is happening to me / you / us. As the unnamed woman prepares for delivery, for motherhood, for change, she reflects on the loss of her mother, on her estranged father, on the secrets she keeps from her premature baby’s soon-to-be daddy. Her fears and inexperience feel real and dangerous.

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