Mother Tongue presents Maggie Shannon’s “Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy,” a collection of work that is both a celebration of birthing bodies and an intimate, candid depiction of what “care” really means. Set against the backdrop of an America that increasingly casts women’s healthcare and bodily autonomy aside, Shannon’s award-winning titular series began as a documentation of midwife-led home births after much of the US went into lockdown in early March 2020; now it is recontextualized in book form.