‘One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman’By Abi Maxwellc.2024, Knopf$28/307 pages “How many times have I told you that…?” How many times have you heard that?
Probably so often that, well, you stopped listening. From your mother, when you were very small. From your teachers in school.
From your supervisor, significant other, or best friend. As in the new memoir “One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman” by Abi Maxwell, it came from a daughter.
When she was pregnant, Abi Maxwell took long walks in the New Hampshire woods near her home, rubbing her belly and talking to her unborn baby.