How to Get a Baby Summary

The folklore of having a child instructs a woman to sit at the edge of the sea and beckon to the soul of her child, which will come in the form of a tiny luminous fish. The woman should sit still until the tide pulls the water away, and she will be full of new life that is brought to fruition through intimate relations with her husband.

How to Get a Baby Analysis

Legend and stories of spirit thread through the lives of the island women, and this most fundamental one is at the core of life itself perpetuating itself from the sea.