Our Difficult Daughter

I couldn’t accomplish the simple things that came easily to others: marriage, motherhood

Anita Jain
Human Parts
Published in
21 min readJul 22, 2019

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Illustrations: Peter Wadsworth

TThe first person to learn that I was pregnant was my partially deaf, doddering 80-year-old father. I would imagine that, after learning she is pregnant, a woman first announces the good news to her partner or her mother. But I had neither.

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Anita Jain
Human Parts

I’m an author, journalist, and communications strategist. Author of Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India