Through Her Eyes

While visiting Ireland, the homeland of her late mother, Maggie feels the grief of the complicated relationship they had while her mother was still alive. When Maggie finds herself at a Gaelic goddess fire ritual she wishes for healing on her matrilineal line. Later that night, Maggie becomes pregnant.

Maggie has a supportive husband, an amazing best friend, and her dream job, but when her daughter is born and Maggie begins navigating the new normal of breastfeeding, pump breaks, and daycare drop-offs, nothing is as simple as she anticipated. She feels like she's been dropped into a world where nothing seems well-suited to motherhood and feels pressured to live like she doesn't have a newborn.

To make matters worse, Maggie's sleepless nights are haunted by dreams of tragedies that seem to want to burst into her reality. As the pain from her nightmares seep into her daily life, she stops trusting her reality and leans into the support of her partner and best friend... until even they aren't sure if she still has a grip on reality.

As Maggie digs into what the dreams could mean, her world cracks open and she's forced to confront things she never would have believed before: impossible truths and devastating realities of what it means to be a mother and what it will take to heal.

With elements of magical realism, whimsy, and critiques on the state of motherhood in the United States, Kate Sorokas has woven together a tale of a mother saving herself while drowning-with the help of her real and magical village.