Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e; Part I: Spanish Jasmin(n)e; Loss; Independence; Exam Table; Diagnosis; Skin Score; Poet's Jasmin(n)e; Avalanche I; Hands Clean; When You Marry a Mexican American; Support Group; Part II: Red Jasmin(n)e; First Trimester; One in Four; Baby M; Not Yet; Insanity; What to Expect When You're Not Expecting; Dar a Luz; How to Be Infertile; Open; Shades of Red; Waiting; Part III: Summer Jasmin(n)e; Gluttony: Undigested; Hunger; Interruptions; Lupus; ER Visits; "Sick" Humor; Young, Pretty & Able; Stroke
Mouth SoresMo(u)rning Medications; Detours; Inflammation; Heart; Part IV: Winter Jasmin(n)e; Avalanche II; Hands: El Corte; Morir soñando; Hair; Massage Envy; Drop It; After the Avalanche; Part V: True Jasmin(n)e; Hope; (W)Hole; Health; Home; Haima; Hostility; Heridas; Heroine; Acknowledgements; Gracias
Summary
Jasminne Méndez, a Dominican American educator, performance artist and writer, reveals her experiences with chronic illness and infertility in these moving essays and poems
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