19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
In ‘Firstborn,' an author recalls the dream, and loss, of her daughter
Lauren Christensen's memoir, 'Firstborn,' begins with an epigraph from Louise Glück's poem 'The Wild Iris': 'Hear me out: that which you call death/ I remember.' Christensen lost her first child, Simone, in early 2023, delivered stillborn at 22 weeks' gestation.