Īnalyses of how stillbirths should be treated legally have referenced this book: "Putting anything into the balance against the exigencies of parental grief may suggest a cold indifference to suffering. You carry it for the full nine months, you feel it move inside you, so you and your mate know for sure its alive, and then you bear it, finally, because you have to, even though you've learned it has died." An excerpt was published in the August 2008 issue of Oprah magazine. How much is there to say, after all, about a baby who never drew breath? McCracken, who was days from her due date when her doctor failed to find a heartbeat, knows how much." The New York Times reviewer, who had apparently experienced something similar, wrote of Replica, "the author also applies honesty, wisdom and even wit to a painful event." Kirkus Reviews noted that while McCracken wrote "Closure is bullshit," "her memoir shows her achieving a sort of peace, though never a mindless tranquility." Fourth Genre, a journal dedicated to "notable, innovative work in non-fiction," described the book in a column about how different writers have approached grief: "McCracken frankly illuminates what that situation really implies: the sad and gruesome facts concerning giving birth to a dead baby. People magazine noted the rarity of records of such experiences: "In the annals of grief memoirs, stillbirth stories don't figure big.
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