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ISBN
1594206635
EAN
9781594206634
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Type
Hardback
Release Title
An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood
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Brockes, Emma
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594206635
ISBN-13
9781594206634
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240046540

Product Key Features

Book Title
Excellent Choice : Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Infertility, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Topic / Marriage & Family
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Family & Relationships, Health & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography, Humor, Medical
Author
Emma Brockes
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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LCCN
2018-006198
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"I don't know whether to love Emma Brockes more as a writer or a human being. Why can't we all face life with her courage, grace, and shockingly good sense of humor?" --Lauren Collins, author of When in French "Emma Brockes is a spiky, smart and ferocious writer. Her quest to become a mother is alternately harrowing and hilarious." --Pamela Druckerman, author of Bringing Up Bb and There Are No Grown-ups "Witty, irreverent, and wickedly perceptive, An Excellent Choice illuminates not one, but a whole host of still quasi-taboo topics from sperm donors to assisted reproduction. Emma Brockes is a beautiful writer, a wonderful story-teller, and a keen observer of human nature." --Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes
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From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realizes that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, she's going to have to be untraditional about it. From the moment she decides to stop "futzing" around, have her eggs counted, and "get cracking"; through multiple trials of IUI, which she is intrigued to learn can be purchased in bulk packages, just like Costco; to the births of her twins, which her girlfriend gamely documents with her iPhone and selfie-stick, Brockes is never any less than bluntly and bracingly honest about her extraordinary journey to motherhood. She quizzes her friends on the pros and cons of personally knowing one's sperm donor, grapples with esoteric medical jargon and the existential brain-melt of flipping through donor catalogues and conjures with the politics of her Libertarian OB/GYN--all the while exploring the cultural circumstances and choices that have brought her to this point. Brockes writes with charming self-effacing humor about being a British woman undergoing fertility treatment in the US, poking fun at the starkly different attitude of Americans. Anxious that biological children might not be possible, she wonders, should she resent society for how it regards and treats women who try and fail to have children? Brockes deftly uses her own story to examine how and why an increasing number of women are using fertility treatments in order to become parents--and are doing it solo. Bringing the reader every step of the way with mordant wit and remarkable candor, Brockes shares the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of her momentous and excellent choice.
LC Classification Number
RG135.B74 2018

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