The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood

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A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertilityWhen 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.

BELLE BOGGS has published work in Glimmer Train, Oxford American, and Best New American Voices 2003. She received an MA in fiction from the University of California at Irvine and grew up in King William County, Virginia. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Art of WaitingOn Fertility, Medicine, and MotherhoodBy Belle BoggsGRAYWOLF PRESSCopyright © 2016 Belle Boggs
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ISBN: 978-1-55597-749-8
ContentsThe Art of Waiting, 3,
Baby Fever, 17,
Imaginary Children, 35,
In the Peanut Hospital, 55,
Visible Life, 71,
Just Adopt, 81,
Solstice, 99,
The Whole House, 115,
Takeover, 127,
Birth Stories, 153,
Carrying, 175,
Paying for It, 183,
Epilogue, 209,
Acknowledgments, 219,
Selected Resources, 221,
Notes, 227,
Selected Bibliography, 237,

CHAPTER 1The Art of Waiting
It's spring when I realize that I may never have children, and around that time the thirteen-year cicadas return, tunneling out of neat, round holes in the grou