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About the Book
Once Upon a Full Moon is a hybrid, vignette‑driven memoir that traces the first years of motherhood as both rupture and revelation. Through intimate scenes, recorded conversations, and small self‑designed experiments, the book explores how identity bends, fractures, and reforms in the wake of caring for a new life.
Rather than offering advice or certainty, it invites readers into the raw, luminous middle. It invites readers into the place where exhaustion and wonder coexist, where the self becomes both unfamiliar and more deeply known.
This is a story about matrescence, marriage, memory, and the ways we remake ourselves when no one is watching. It’s for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of a life they thought they understood and felt the ground shift beneath them.
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Why This Book
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For anyone who has felt the disorientation of becoming someone new
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For anyone who has felt the CLARITY of becoming someone new
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For lovers of memoirs that blend the personal with the cultural, the intimate with the universal
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For readers who crave lyrical, voice‑driven nonfiction
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For those drawn to hybrid forms that mirror the texture of lived experience
If you connected with books like You Could Make This Place Beautiful, The Motherload or The House on Mango Street this memoir will feel like an old friend.
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A Note from Me
Thank you for being here. Writing this book has been an an act of growth via attention. Attention to myself, to my family, and to the invisible emotional currents that shape early motherhood. I’m so grateful to share this space with you.