Part testimony, part meditation, part poetry, this book convenes all three to speak to the intense experiences of pregnancy and motherhood.

Hélène Laurain writes of a body overwhelmed, transformed by the experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. Hers is a tale unlike any other you've encountered before: of a miscarriage, a successful childbirth, and life with two little girls against the backdrop of the climate catastrophe now underway, with geopolitical conflicts in the distance. This is a book at once gentle yet mighty, delicate and raw, precise and volcanic, that speaks of the ordinariness of everyday life with young children, exhaustion, and the self lost in the shuffle, but also joy. A beautiful life, that is worth living. Tambora was shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Goncourt.