Alena Dillon Author Event & My Body is a Big Fat Temple Chosen as Essential Pick on City Weekly

My Body is a Big Fat Temple was recently chosen as one of the essential A&E picks for Salt Lake City Weekly.

Join Dillon in a free virtual event sponsored by Weller Book Works on October 14 at 8pm EDT/ 6pm MDT. You can watch the livestream on Weller's YouTube channel.

Read more about My Body is a Big Fat Temple below.

My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the “baby blues,” the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally (basically, mostly) blossoming into her new identity.

Creating life is a primal phenomenon. It requires grit, resilience, and a lot of bathroom breaks. There are dry heaves and darkened nipples, crotch lightning and brain fuzz, milk stains, sleep regressions, and equal amounts of despair and joy. It's a complicated magic. The undertaking is airbrushed to preserve the ideal of motherhood, and exacerbated by a culture that dictates what women can do and how they should feel. We don’t get the full story, so mothers with unromantic experiences feel like aberrations, and worse, alone. This is why the voices of women matter. The voices of mothers matter. Here’s one to keep you company, and to remind you to do your Kegels. (They’re really important.)