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| Publisher | Manilla |
| ISBN 13 | 9781786580559 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786580551 |
| Author | Christa Parravani |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in all gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading.' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice in Trump's America. For readers of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy. In 2017, Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to West Virginia. Surviving on a teacher's salary, she was already raising two young children with her husband, screenwriter Anthony Swofford. Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her second child, came as a shock. Christa had a history of ectopic pregnancies and was worried that she wouldn't be able to find adequate medical care. She immediately requested a termination - but her doctor refused to help. The only doctor who would perform an abortion made it clear that this would be illicit, not condoned by her colleagues or their community. In exploring her own choice, or rather in discovering her lack of it, Christa reveals the desperate state of female healthcare in contemporary America. |
| About the Author | Christa Parravani is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoir Her, which shares Parravani's journey through grief after the loss of her identical twin sister Cara. She is an Assistant Professor in Creative Non-fiction at West Virginia University. |
| Publication Date | 2020-11-10 |
| Number of Pages | 224 pages |
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood
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