Raising a Rare Girl

“A remarkable book . . . I found myself thinking that all expectant and new parents should read it.” —Michelle Slater

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

In Raising a Rare Girl, Lanier explores how to defy the tyranny of normal and embrace parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways.

Like many women of her generation, when Heather Lanier was expecting her first child she did everything by the book in the hope that she could create a SuperBaby, a supreme...