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Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy

English

By (author): Chitra Ramaswamy

A cartoon fried egg. An eye. The tiniest of black holes. It needed a professional eye to be seen, but once pointed out it was undeniable. My own little Big Bang. The beginning of it all.

When Chitra Ramaswamy discovered she was pregnant, she longed to read something that went above and beyond a biology book or prescriptive manual; something that, instead, got to the heart of this thrilling, bewildering, overlooked, and often misrepresented experience.

Expecting is a creative memoir. Through nine chapters exploring the nine months of pregnancy and birth, Ramaswamy takes the reader on a physical, intellectual, emotional, literary, and philosophical journey through the landscape of pregnancy. Childbearing and childbirth are experiences defined both by the measurable monthly changes to ones life and body, and by those immeasurable, often obscured and neglected changes in perspective which are accessed through metaphor, art, and emotion.

Ramaswamy bears witness to the individual and collective experience of pregnancy in this intimate yet expansive book of wild and lyrical essays, paying tribute to this most extraordinary and ordinary of experiences.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 16 May 2024
  • Publisher: Saraband
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781915089991

About Chitra Ramaswamy

Chitra Ramaswamy is an award-winning journalist and author with more than ten years experience writing for publications including The Big Issue The Scotsman and the Guardian. Her first book Expecting was first published by Saraband in 2016 and won the Saltire first book of the year award as well as being shortlisted for the Polari prize. Her second Homelands: The History of a Friendship was published in 2022 by Canongate. She has also contributed essays to collections including Antlers of Water Nasty Women The Freedom Papers The Bi-ble and Message from the Skies.

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