Expecting Adam

A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

Author  Martha Beck
Expecting Adam

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A candid and moving memoir of how one woman’s pregnancy forced her to confront her definition of how to live a successful life

“Slyly ironic, frequently hilarious, [Martha] Beck’s memoir charts the journey from being smart to becoming wise.”—Time
 
This edition includes a new afterword about Adam.
 
From the moment Martha and her husband, John, accidentally conceived their second child, all hell broke loose. They were a couple obsessed with success. After years of matching IQs and test scores with less driven peers, they had two Harvard degrees apiece and were gunning for more. They’d plotted out a future in the most vaunted ivory tower of academe. 
 
But when their unborn son, Adam, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, doctors, advisers,…