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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Brockes, Emma, author.     Subjects     Brockes, Emma -- Health.     Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Biography.     Infertility, Female -- Patients -- England -- Biography.     Mothers -- England -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brockes, Emma, author.       by title:      An excellent choice ...         MARC Display

An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood / Emma Brockes. by Brockes, Emma, author. New York : Penguin Press, 2018. Subjects Brockes, Emma -- Health.   Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Biography.   Infertility, Female -- Patients -- England -- Biography.   Mothers -- England -- Biography. ISBN:  9781594206634 (hardcover) : 1594206635 (hardcover) Description:  287 pages ; 24 cm Contents:  "Are you going to do it, then?" -- Origin story -- The selfish gene -- tubes -- Sperm -- January 2014 -- Drugs -- Waiting -- Falling -- Rising -- England -- New Year's Eve -- Neonatal. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 618.17805 Brockes Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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