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WANTING A CHILD
Bialosky, Jill
1998 48092 From the Publisher With humor, courage, pain, and joy, the writers in this collection of personal essays and fiction share the same dream - the wish for a child. Here they reveal their complicated but mostly successful journeys, whether they involve surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, pregnancy after multiple miscarriages, or adoption. Also included are inspiring accounts of families that defy the traditional definition, from homes with same-sex partners to those with single parents or stepparents. Elle The extraordinarily intimate essays are often heart-stopping, as these eloquent writers . . . are surprised by their own fierce desire for a child. New York Times Book Review Each story in this moving anthology reiterates the universal need to be a parent, to experience what the essayist Michael Brub . . . describes as 'this overwhelming, bone-crushing, life-transforming, complicated feeling of wonder.' New York Magazine The contributors to this vibrant collection . . . share not only a yearning for parenthood but an unsentimentally enchanting gift for expressing it. Women's Review of Books - Karen Propp Wanting a Child contains the best writing I have seen on infertility, treatment by reproductive technlogy, and adoption..[The book] is a powerful read that will resonate with the increasing numbers who experience difficulty becoming a parent (some six million at last count) - and for the general reder, the first-rate writing in these quests will enlighten and reward. The Women's Review of Books Run don't walk to buy this book. Publishers Weekly This hauntingly written and heartfelt collection assembled by Bialosky (The End of Desire) and Schulman (The Revisionist), who are also contributors, details the experiences of men and women who have wanted to have children but, for various reasons, found the road to parenthood paved with difficulties. Several of the essays deal with responses to infertility and miscarriage, such as Agnes Rossi's "In Vitro." Phillip Lopate's haunting "The Lake of Suffering" describes how he and his wife coped with the serious illness of their newborn daughter, and in "The Boys," Sophie Cabot Black discusses the method she and her female partner used to decide on the right male donor for their child. In one of the several selections on adoption, Tama Janowitz remembers the highs and lows of traveling to China with her husband to bring home their daughter. The short stories, including Marly Swick's fictional account of a surrogate mother ("The Summer Before the Summer of Love"), strengthen this unusual anthology. Barbara Hoffert - Library Journal For some people, wanting a child is not simply a matter of "first comes love, then comes, marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage." With couples marrying older, families breaking up and reforming, and many women not bothering to marry at all, traditional patterns of childbearing are out the window, and many couples are coming late to parenthood, with all the attendant difficulties. This stellar collection of essays and fiction from noted authors like Bob Shachocis, Amy Hempl, Tama Janowitz, and Ann Hood illuminate contemporary issues in childbearing: the anxiety of a pregant woman who has miscarried often, the joy of a single mother who adopts a Chinese girl, the determination of a lesbian couple to have their own baby, the awful pain of failing yet again to conceive after numerous infertility treatments. With so many guides available on getting pregnant and staying pregnant, collections need a book like this that adds a truly human dimension to the discussion. Highly recommended. New York Times Book Review - Leslie Chess Feller Helen Schulman, a novelist, and Jill Bialosky, a poet and editor, in their determination to address losses never 'allowed to be real,' have collected 22 personal essays in Wanting a Child. Each story in this moving anthology reiterates the universal need to be a parent, to experience what the essayist Michael Berube, father of an ast Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0374286345 / 9780374286347
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