Parravani Christa
Parravani Christa - Loved And Wanted A Memoir Of Choice Children And Womanhood - Paperback
Parravani Christa - Loved And Wanted A Memoir Of Choice Children And Womanhood - Paperback
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Description: Haunting wild and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood in all its gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading. Lisa Taddeo #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Women A stressed family an unplanned pregnancy and a painful if liberating awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her Christa Parravani was forty years old in a troubled marriage and in bad financial straits when she learned she was pregnant with her third child. She and her family were living in Morgantown West Virginia where she had taken a professorial position at the local university. Haunted by a childhood steeped in poverty and violence and by young adult years rocked by the tragic death of her identical twin sister Christa hoped her professor's salary and healthcare might set her and her young family on a safe and steady path. Instead one year after the birth of her second child Christa found herself pregnant again. Six weeks into the pregnancy she requested an abortion. And in the weeks then months that followed nurses obfuscated and doctors refused outright or feared being found out to the point of ultimately becoming unavailable to provide Christa with reproductive choice. By the time Christa understood that she would need to leave West Virginia to obtain a safe legal abortion she d run out of time. She had failed to imagine that she might not have access to reproductive choice in the United States until it was too late for her her pregnancy too far along. So she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Keats. And another frightening education began: available healthcare was dangerously inadequate to her newborn son's needs; indeed environmental degradations and poor healthcare endangered Christa's older children as well. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies their futures and even their hopes for their children's lives.
Title: Loved And Wanted A Memoir Of Choice Children And Womanhood
Author(s): Parravani Christa
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250813862
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/12/2021
Category: Memoirs
Description: Haunting wild and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood in all its gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading. Lisa Taddeo #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Women A stressed family an unplanned pregnancy and a painful if liberating awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her Christa Parravani was forty years old in a troubled marriage and in bad financial straits when she learned she was pregnant with her third child. She and her family were living in Morgantown West Virginia where she had taken a professorial position at the local university. Haunted by a childhood steeped in poverty and violence and by young adult years rocked by the tragic death of her identical twin sister Christa hoped her professor's salary and healthcare might set her and her young family on a safe and steady path. Instead one year after the birth of her second child Christa found herself pregnant again. Six weeks into the pregnancy she requested an abortion. And in the weeks then months that followed nurses obfuscated and doctors refused outright or feared being found out to the point of ultimately becoming unavailable to provide Christa with reproductive choice. By the time Christa understood that she would need to leave West Virginia to obtain a safe legal abortion she d run out of time. She had failed to imagine that she might not have access to reproductive choice in the United States until it was too late for her her pregnancy too far along. So she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Keats. And another frightening education began: available healthcare was dangerously inadequate to her newborn son's needs; indeed environmental degradations and poor healthcare endangered Christa's older children as well. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies their futures and even their hopes for their children's lives.
Title: Loved And Wanted A Memoir Of Choice Children And Womanhood
Author(s): Parravani Christa
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250813862
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/12/2021
Category: Memoirs
