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Loved and Wanted

A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood

Author: Christa Parravani  

Loved and Wanted
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'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

'Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in allgothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading.' - Lisa Taddeo, author of ThreeWomen

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'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

'Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in allgothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading.' - Lisa Taddeo, author of ThreeWomen

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In the wake of Texas enacting a bill to deny abortions after 6 weeks, Loved andWanted shines a light on motherhood and the right to choose.

In 2017, Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to WestVirginia. Surviving on a teacher's salary, she was already raising two young childrenwith 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 beable to find adequate medical care. She immediately requested a termination - buther doctor refused to help. The only doctor who would perform an abortion made itclear 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 revealsthe desperate state of female healthcare in contemporary America.

A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice inTrump's America. For readers of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy.

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Critic Reviews

'The writing is stunningly good' - The Bookseller


'A brutally honest, rollercoaster of a journey that left me championing her bravery.' - Esther Freud

'Christa's writing is fearless and beautiful. Loved and Wanted is about women's reproductive freedoms, and lack of them, but it's also a book about motherhood, identity, marriage, home and belonging. Extraordinary, incredibly powerful, and breathtakingly honest.' - Clover Stroud

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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 twinsister Cara. She is an Assistant Professor in Creative Non-fiction at West VirginiaUniversity.

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'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 In the wake of Texas enacting a bill to deny abortions after 6 weeks, Loved and Wanted shines a light on motherhood and the right to choose. 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. A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice in Trump's America. For readers of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bonnier Books Ltd | Manilla Press
Published
3rd March 2022
Pages
224
ISBN
9781786580566

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