Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion
by Jacquelyn Mitchard and Francine Prose and Deborah E. McDowell and Pam Houston and Kate Maloy and Catherine Newman and Ann Hood and Sandy Hingston and Karen E. Bender and Sarah Messer and Carolyn Ferrell and Denise Gess and Nina de Gramont and Susan Ito and Katie Allison Granju and Valina Hasu Houston and K.A.C. and Ashley Talley and Stephanie Andersen and Katherine Towler and Harriette E. Wimm and Elizabeth Larsen and Janet Ellerby and Kimi Faxon Hemmingway
A moving collection of personal essays about the real, human experiences behind the highly politicized issue of reproductive choice. At a time when a woman’s most complex decisions have been reduced to political rhetoric and impersonal theory, and political debate has been hijacked by pundits and name-callers, Choice joins the discourse with an assortment of candid voices in an effort to humanize the debate about reproductive rights. In addressing a wide range of women’s choices—from using birth control to taking the morning-after pill, from adopting a child to putting a child up for adoption, from having an abortion to bringing a pregnancy to full term—Choice explores the complexities inherent in every reproductive decision. Including twenty-four honest, heartrending essays from established writers such as Francine Prose, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Pam Houston, Ann Hood, and Sarah Messer and emerging talents such as Kimi Faxon Hemingway, Stephanie Anderson, and Ashley Talley, Choice will allow you to truly understand the meaning of the word “choice”—regardless of what side of the debate you stand on.
Release Date:
November 19, 2007
