Alice Eve Cohen, What I Thought I Knew - 9780670020959

A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possible

At age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Alice tells her fiancé that shes never been happier. And then the stomach pains begin.

In her unflinchingly honest and ruefully witty voice, Alice nimbly carries us through her metamorphosis from a woman who has come to terms with infertility to one who struggles to love a heartbeat found in her womb six months into a high-risk pregnancy.

What I Thought I Knew is a page-turner filled with vivid characters, humor, and many surprises and twists of fate. With the suspense of a thriller and the intimacy of a diary, Cohen describes her unexpected journey through doubt, a broken medical system, and the hotly contested terrain of motherhood and family in todays society. Timely and compelling, What I Thought I Knew will capture readers of memoirs such as Eat, Pray, Love; The Glass Castle; and A Three Dog Life.

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[floridapotter]

I loved this book

I am a DES daughter

OMG...what a journey...much appreciated!!

[spectaculore]

This is unbelievably annoying. The story is fascinating, but the overacting is killing me.

[peonie59]

I just finished reading her book. Once I started, I couldn't put it down. It was an amazing story.

[DarthProg]

I almost stomached this until the 3:20 mark.

[transientsweekly]

So, this is the evolution of Reality TV: Reality Theater? Same absent talent, same listless spirit? Same lack of objective purpose for the suffering of the experience? As much as I appreciate your unique fate, I have to recommend to you an actual interpretive artist for to tell your story. Otherwise, as I've seen here, it's just lisping dreck. Art is more than effort. It's skill and blessed talent. You have no stage presence.

[jamied1030]

Thought it was great, cant wait to read how the rest of the story unfolds.