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EXPECTING ADAM
By Martha Beck
Times Books, 242 pages, $22.95
Martha Beck was 25 when she found out that the child she was carrying had Down syndrome. The pregnancy was unplanned–she and her husband were graduate students at Harvard and already the parents of a young child–but in a move that surprised even herself, Beck decided against undergoing a therapeutic abortion. In describing her traumatic pregnancy and the ways in which her son has altered the family’s life, Beck writes with an unusual blend of searing detail and self-effacing humor.