She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood

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After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . . . what Mommy's little helper A faux dad As a midwestern, station wagon-driving, stay-at-home mom-and as a nonbiological lesbian mother-Miller both defines and defies the norm. Like new parents everywhere, she wrestled with the anxieties and challenges of first-time parenthood but experienced pregnancy and birth only vicariously. Part love story, part comedy, part quest, Miller's candid and often humorous memoir is a much-needed cultural roadmap for becoming a parent, even when the usual categories do not fit.

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[A] sweetly humorous and insightful account of uncommon motherhood.Booklist

An introspective work that lays open the inner workings of lesbian parenthood while effectively demystifying parenthood in general.Kirkus Reviews

Mothers as well as fathers will recognize themselves in Millers brave, poignant, and funny memoir about parenthood.Both unique and universal, Millers honest and hopeful voice shines a bright light on the adventures of creating a family in the twenty-first century.Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of Shes Not There and Im Looking Through You

Take one big heart, a heap of talent, and a whole lot of courage and you get Amie Millers She Looks Just Like You. Miller is a graceful, witty, compassionate guide along the journey that is lesbian parenting."Harlyn Aizley, editor of Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All

Author Bio

Amie Klempnauer Miller is a frequent speaker about gay and lesbian families, and her writing has appeared on Salon, in Brain, Child and Greater Good magazines, and elsewhere. Miller works as a development con-sultant to the public media industry and lives with her partner and daughter in St. Paul, Minnesota.