When people say they had trouble conceiving, or having a baby, or things were difficult, those are both euphemisms and over-simplifications. The trouble is never just trying to have a baby. The trouble becomes the fracturing of a relationship strained to cracking as two people try everything to create something together. It is the explosion of promises little girls are fed, the certainty of motherhood-now just a dream wrapped up in a nightmare. The broken dream of family, the arrow of jealousy between friends-one who can get pregnant on a whim, one who cannot for literal love or money.
Julia Leigh bares all in this tale of a woman struggling to have a baby, struggling with connection, struggling with career, struggling with her very soul. A searing look into the world of infertility and the heart of a woman.
Questions for Discussion:
1. What would you do if you were in her position? When would you stop? Would you stop? Why?
2. How do you feel about assisted fertility? Why?
3. What have your own experiences and others experiences taught you about infertility?
4. What would you have done if you were in her male partner’s shoes?
5. What do you wish the author had told you more about?
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