About this Event
Join us for the official launch of Shayne Terry's Leave: A Postpartum Account, "a raw and candid account of one woman's long, traumatic recovery from birth and what it offers in our understanding of motherhood, pain, and recovery" (Shelf Awareness).
Shayne will be in conversation with her friend, mentor, and author Sara Lippmann. Literary friendship will be abundant, refreshments will be served, and all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win BOOKS!
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About the book
Shayne Terry’s fourth trimester is not going as planned. Instead of bonding with her new baby, she’s stuck on the couch with a third-degree tear, barely able to walk. When the women in her family show up to help, they come bearing family secrets and old wounds that also need repair. Begun as notes on Terry’s phone documenting a parental leave gone awry, Leave examines a healing process complicated by capitalism, intergenerational trauma, and a healthcare system with a long history of devaluing women. This powerful postpartum account treats birth as a portal, one that can connect us to a lineage of pain, joy, death, and life. And at a time when our bodily autonomy is being stripped away, Leave is an urgent exploration of one woman’s experience recovering from birth in America.
A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Book of 2025
“I want to give this to every woman I know.” — Lindsay Hunter, author of Hot Springs Drive
“I’ve never read a book like this before." — Carley Moore, author of Panpocalypse
About the author
Shayne Terry's work has appeared in CRAFT, Electric Literature, TriQuarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere, and her story The Rock Is Not a Rock was included as a distinguished story of 2024 in Best American Short Stories. She has been selected for workshops and residencies at Bread Loaf, CRIT, Tin House, and the Vermont Studio Center. Leave: A Postpartum Account is her first book.
About Sara Lippmann
Sara Lippmann is the author of the novel Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks. Her fiction has won the Lilith Fiction Prize and has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her essays have appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, Catapult, The Lit Hub and elsewhere. She is a co-founder of the Writing Co-lab, an online teaching platform, and lives in Ditmas Park.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA, United States
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