![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Fans of Lena Dunham, Leslie Jamison, and Jenny Lawsonalong with readers of medical memoirs like When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Hourwill find that connection in Mosss Flesh & Blood. With public figures like Chrissy Teigen and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, speaking out about infertility recently, women are eager for voices that acknowledge their struggles. But Moss discovers that there are other ways besides having children to make a mark, and that grief is not a stopping place but a companion that travels along with us through everything, even happiness. And we learn about the inspiring women in Mosss familyher mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmotheras she sorts out her feeling that this line will end with her. Among her interests: yellow fever, good cocktails, the history of New Orleans, and, always, the natural world, including the praying mantis in her sunroom whom she names Claude. Mosss wise, droll voice and limitless curiosity lift this beautiful memoir beyond any narrow focus. West Moss on Bookclubs, the website for organizing a. ![]() We follow Moss through her surgery, complications, and recovery as her thoughts turn to her previous struggles with infertility, to grief and healing, to what it means to leave a legacy. Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir by N. ![]() Doctors are baffled, but eventually a diagnosishemangiomais determined and a hysterectomy is scheduled. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in the middle of a writing class, she drives herself to the hospital. I drive and say to myself, if I am dying, if this is how I die, then this is how I die. A remarkable memoir that breaks the silence about infertilityand will resonate with millions of women. ![]()
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