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Author:
Michelle Tea
Publisher:
Dey Street Books
Date:
August 2, 2022
From a PEN/America Award winner and 2021 Guggenheim fellow comes the taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured woman.
What The Reviewers Say
Tea’s candid examinations of addiction, pleasure and belonging have embodied and nurtured a subculture.
... [Tea] takes readers along with her with the same wit and humor she’s brought to different worlds throughout her prolific writing life.
We are given a front row seat to these three years that Tea and Orson (and their friends and their families) spent consumed with the hopes of them eventually becoming parents. Tea narrates the ups and downs of the process with her trademark humor and doesn’t shy away from giving us all of the gory, sad, disappointing, and heart-wrenching details that became parts of their paths to parenthood.
Whether Tea is writing nonfiction or cult-favorite fiction, her work is her own, ringing in her unmistakable voice: wry, witty, authentic, down-to-earth but also way-up-in-the-clouds. Above all, it’s the self-deprecating, self-aware and ultimately self-loving honesty that distinguishes Tea’s way of life and her irresistible, evocative and wise way of writing about it.
