The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood By BELLE BOGGS -Paperback 🆕

         THE            ART    OF WAITING -by- BOOGS, BELLE is an inspiring and deeply personal exploration of fertility, medicine, and motherhood. Written with a supportive and friendly tone, this heartfelt book offers a powerful and compassionate view on the struggles and triumphs of our reproductive journeys. When Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and a spot at the intersection of "highbrow" and "brilliant" in New York magazine's "Approval Matrix."In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her--the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo--for signs that she is not alone. Boggs also explores other aspects of fertility and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film Raising Arizona; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from Macbeth to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; the financial and legal complications that accompany alternative means of family making; the private and public expressions of iconic writers grappling with motherhood and fertility. She reports, with great empathy, complex stories of couples who adopted domestically and from overseas, LGBT couples considering assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and women and men reflecting on childless or child-free lives.In The Art of Waiting, Boggs deftly distills her time of waiting into an expansive contemplation of fertility, choice, and the many possible roads to making a life and making a family. Publisher‏: ‎ Graywolf Press (September 6, 2016) Language‏: ‎ English Paperback‏: ‎ 224 pages ISBN-13‏: ‎ 9781555977498 Item Weight‏: ‎ 16.0 ounces Dimensions‏: ‎ 5.5 x 0.74 x 8.28 inches   About the author Belle Boggs is the author of The Gulf, The Art of Waiting, and Mattaponi Queen. The Gulf, her first novel, was published by Graywolf Press on April 2, 2019. The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood, a collection of essays, was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and was named a best book of the year by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, the Globe and Mail, Buzzfeed, and O, the Oprah Magazine. Mattaponi Queen, a collection of linked stories set along Virginia’s Mattaponi River, won the Bakeless Prize and the Library of Virginia Literary Award and was a finalist for the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences. She is an associate professor of creative writing at North Carolina State University.