Title: Self-esteem as self-aggrandizement
Product review: Grounded in the self-aggrandizement school of self-esteem, On the Day You Were Born is a Desiderata for the 90's. In author Debra Frasier's universe, the Copernican revolution never happened--she tells us that on the day you were born, the sun lights "your sky," the moon's pull washes the beach "clean for your footprints" and the news of "your birth" migrates from animal to animal. This sort of egocentric subjectivity would not be so offensive if we were at least willing to reciprocate. But what to get a newborn slug? Illustrated in the style of Matisse cutouts.
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