Erika’s Reviews > The Frozen River > Status Update

Every laboring woman suspectsthat she is in fact moments away from death. A woman is never more vulnerable than while in labor nor is she ever stronger. Like a wounded animal cornered and desperate she spends her travail alternately curled in upon herself or lashing out. It ought to kill a woman, this process of having her body turned inside out. By rights, no one should survive such a thing. Yet miraculously they do