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A laughoutloud memoir about a freespirited Brooklyn girl who after a whirlwind romance finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse pregnant and faced with five months of doctorprescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids
Aileen Weintraub has been running away from commitment her entire life hopping from one job and one relationship to the next When her father suddenly dies she flees her Jewish Brooklyn community for the wilds of the country where she unexpectedly falls in love with a man who knows a lot about produce tractors and how to take a person down in one jiujitsu move Within months of saying I do shes pregnant life is on track and then wham Her doctor slaps a highrisk label on her uterus and sends her to bed for five months
As her husbands farmhouse begins to collapse and her marriage starts to do the same Weintraub finally confronts her grief for her father while fighting for the survival of her unborn baby Will she stay or will she once again run away from it all
Knocked Down is an emotionally charged rollercoaster ride of survival and growth It is a story about marriage motherhood and the risks we take
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