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Lore finds the hospital together - no hubby, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: She wants no fetal keep an eye on, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward - herself on the verge of demonstrating - is patient with the young female. She is aware what it's like to be concerned that something might go wrong, and she knows the distress when it can. She is aware as well as anyone the severe obstacle of childbirth, what it can to the mind and the body. Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a hard labor, are forced to reckon using their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond earlier traumas to accept the life span that's waiting for her. Pamela Erens goes seamlessly between their begrudging partnership and the recollections evoked by so intense an event: for Lore, of the father of her child and her past best friend; for Franckline, of the family in Haiti that she's exiled. At turns urgent and lyrical, Erens' novel is a visceral portrait of childbirth and a brilliant rendering of just how we address motherhood - with fear and pleasure, anguish and awe.
