Can You Feel This?

Inheritance collection

De: Julie Orringer

Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

In the chaos of a maternity ward, memories of tragedy and grief come flooding back for an anxious mother-to-be as she struggles to balance her child’s needs with her own healing.

Rushed into an emergency cesarean section, a woman finds herself in the same hospital where her suicidal mother died. She’s buried the trauma of her mother’s last hours--and also the dread that she might be just as vulnerable to breaking. As the new mother relives one crisis in the midst of another, prize-winning author Julie Orringer turns the joyous event of birth into a harrowing, poignant short story.

Julie Orringer’s Can You Feel This? is part of Inheritance, a collection of five stories about secrets, unspoken desires, and dangerous revelations between loved ones. Each piece can be listened to in a single setting. By yourself, behind closed doors, or shared with someone you trust.

©2019 Julie Orringer (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Nice short story!

Enjoyed this story but definitely felt like I wanted it to be longer. Wanted more info. The story felt like it wasn’t finished!

realistic

i liked the story. could have done without the bad language. it really felt for the characters.

Book is about giving birth

Book is about giving birth and finding courage, maybe or somehow... who knows it's short and not bad but does sort of engage you... MEH

Very good

Quick reading nice story enjoyed listening to it while working would listen to another after this one’s over thank you audible

Birthday

An excellent story of the panapoly of emotions and thoughts a new mother endures during pregnancy and delivery. Well done and well performed

Another nice one ...

I've listened to a few of these short stories and have been pleasantly surprised. I find they engage and draw me in. Short stories and novellas require precise, direct, no-nonsense writing. They simply cannot rely on pages and pages of descriptive narrative; instead, they must jump in and get right to the point. Refreshingly enticing.

Can You Feel This

I feel that the writer. Did a good job of putting the story together.

Felt very real

Perhaps more brutal and descriptive than someone who has never given birth can understand, Can You Feel This? painted a very intimate portrait of a woman giving birth to her firstborn, a woman who was told she might never be able to give birth and who expected to die or watch her infant die, a woman without a mother who grieved her inability to know how a mother should behave. While the birth and first days in the hospital are playing out, the woman struggles, remembering her mother's depression and suicide and all the secrets she has kept as a result. A difficult story, it was well told and ended beautifully. I received this book free from Amazon as part of the Inheritance series and reviewed it because I felt like it.

Pulled me in totally within first minutes

Still Processing My Emotions

I was pulled into protagonist’s (sorry I forgot her name)story so quickly and never left for more than a breath or two. Not a false note in the story.

Can you feel this.

A great story about a new mothers days of her baby's birth and the things that happen before she finally becomes a real mother.