Involuntary Joy: A Story of Unexpected Rebirth

Involuntary Joy describes the thoughts and feelings that went unshared when Joy Newcom's first child was born with multiple birth defects 16 years ago. As his day-to-day realities became her own, she experienced an involuntary transformation, eventually leaving a professional career she loved to become a stay-at-home mom who worked part-time.

She chronicles her first five years as a mother in this candidly honest memoir. Her story is an emotional quagmire of jumbled career aspirations, miss...