Jennifer Matesa Books
The Days and Nights of a Mother in the Making
Three Rivers Press/Random House, 2001
A journal with documentary photographs of the physical and emotional transformations of a first pregnancy.
Chosen by Lamaze International as a top-ten book for expectant parents
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003
A 30-year-old woman diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer undergoes a radical double-mastectomy and chemotherapy, and is given just months to live.
Instead, she lives eight years ... and in that time finds ways to tap into the sources of her physical and spiritual vitality to reconstruct her entire life.