HELD TOGETHER: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love (HarperOne; on sale 4/8/25), by renowned primary care physician Rebecca N. Thompson, MD, is a deeply moving narrative that celebrates the resilience of women as they navigate the diverse and complex journeys of building and sustaining families.
Through deeply personal storytelling, Dr. Thompson shares her own life-threatening pregnancy complications alongside the diverse experiences of twenty-one women she has encountered as a doctor, friend, and colleague. This moving memoir shines a light on the strength found in life’s messiest, most vulnerable moments.
In an early review Library Journal wrote, “This touching, beautifully written work will help many people who have endured loss or complicated paths to parenthood. They are sure to find experiences that resonate with them.”
Held Together addresses:
- Infertility: Grappling with the heartbreak of reproductive challenges and finding strength in perseverance.
- Adoption, fostering, and surrogacy: Showcasing intentional paths to parenthood that redefine traditional family structures.
- Loss: Navigating grief and rediscovering hope after tragic losses of a child, spouse, or parent.
- Complex family dynamics: Celebrating the resilience found in non-traditional and chosen families.
- Healing the healer: Sharing lessons from a physician’s own experience as a patient and advocate for holistic care.
Warm, inclusive, and profoundly inspiring, Held Together is an invitation to connect, reflect, and honor the many ways we define love, family, and motherhood.
As Jodi Picoult writes, “Rebecca Thompson’s moving book proves that there are as many different ways of becoming a family as there are mothers—a personal, compelling reminder of why women’s reproductive health care matters, and why one size does not fit all.”
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