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Trying : A Memoir by Chloe Caldwell (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Type
- Novel
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781644453476
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1644453479
ISBN-13
9781644453476
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4070931492
Product Key Features
Book Title
Trying : a Memoir
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Infertility, General
Publication Year
2025
Genre
Health & Fitness, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-060288
Reviews
Praise for Trying "Chloé Caldwell does what she wants--in life and on the page. This makes her writing deceptively casual: she is never precious and yet every word lands exactly as it's meant to. She is never dogmatic and yet her books are brilliant feminist critiques. In Trying , Caldwell shows--in the most hilarious, heartbreaking ways--how our culture drives women bat-shit crazy and then pretends this insanity is healthy adulthood. What a relief to watch a woman become truly sane: wild, free, spontaneous, slutty, unapologetic, fully alive. I came away from this book wondering what our lives could become if we stop trying so hard just to be okay." --Hannah Tennant-Moore, author of Wreck and Order Praise for Chloe Caldwell "Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic." --Cheryl Strayed "Shot through with sexuality and sass, her language will get up in you and turn you inside out in the best possible way." --Lidia Yuknavitch "Caldwell writes about her life with warmth, humor, and not a trace of apology." --Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
From the author of the bestselling Women , a living document of disenfranchised grief and queer reawakening, If you're writing about your life in real time, are you inherently fucked? Over the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she'd read everything she could find on infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience; for one thing, most stories ended with in vitro fertilization, a baby, or both. She wanted to offer something different. Caldwell began a book. She imagined a selective journal about her experience coping with stasis and uncertainty. Is it time to quit coffee, find a new acupuncturist, get another blood test? Her questions extended to her job at a clothing boutique and to her teaching and writing practice. Why do people love equating publishing books with giving birth? What is the right amount of money to spend on pants or fertility treatments? How much trying is enough? She ignored the sense that something else in her life was wrong that was not on the page . . . until she extracted a confession from her husband. Broken by betrayal but freed from domesticity, Caldwell felt reawakened, to long-buried desires, to her queer identity, to pleasure and possibility. She kept writing, making sense of her new reality as it took shape. With the candor, irreverence, and heart that have made Caldwell's work beloved, Trying intimately captures a self in a continuous process of becoming--and the mysterious ways that writing informs that process.
LC Classification Number
PS3603.A432Z46 2025
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