Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

A New York Times bestseller

If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything. Except get pregnant.

Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she’d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience during labor and delivery.

This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir, Kid Gloves, not only follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether you’ve got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, there’s something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart.

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Published Feb 26, 2019

256 pages

Average rating: 8.5

4 RATINGS

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staceygall
Jun 04, 2025
8/10 stars
I've been following Lucy Knisley online for years now (she's the one who inspired me to start doing 1 Second Everday, iykyk) and have loved her comics chronicling her life and family over the years.

Knabbed it off the Lucky Day listings on Libby to read on my lunch hour and was captivated (and also a little horrified) the entire time. Quick read and a good read, but I wanted a bit more substance at times.

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