Madre

In the first weeks and months after her son's birth, Jessica Chapnik Kahn had no plan to write a book. Yet in that stretch of time — caught up in a rich, overwhelming happiness — she began, almost without meaning to, sketching his features and jotting down her new experiences freely. It became a quiet way of reaching for something that couldn't quite be held.

MADRE is a deeply personal look into the strange and wondrous process of becoming a mother. This unfiltered collection of poetry and illustration pays tribute to the almost sacred nature of creation, change, and growth — always shadowed by the sorrow that lives inside joy, and by how closely birth and death are intertwined.