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I cannot control everything forever : a memoir of motherhood, science, and art / Emily C. Bloom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First editionDescription: 334 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1250285682
  • 9781250285683
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Contents:
Author's note -- Introduction -- Part One: Pregnancy. On being and not being pregnant -- Genetic testing and me -- Designing futures -- The night watch -- Part Two: Motherhood. Tiny earmolds -- Sweetness -- Stay at home -- Motherboard -- In your electronic arms -- Spinning webs -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Image credits.
Summary: An eloquent and intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in modern motherhood.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography New BLOOM, E. B655 Available 33111011356421
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Biography New BLOOM, E. B655 Available 33111011160849
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An eloquent and intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in modern motherhood .

I Cannot Control Everything Forever is Emily Bloom's journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions regarding genetic testing and diagnosis, technologies that offer the illusion of certainty but carry the weight of hard decisions. Her desire to know more thrusts her back into the history of science, as she traces the discoveries that impacted the modern state of pregnancy and motherhood. With the birth of their daughter, who is diagnosed with congenital deafness and later, Type 1 diabetes, Emily and her husband find their life centered around medical data, devices, and doctor's visits, but also made richer and fuller by parenting an exceptional child.

As Emily learns, technology and data do not reduce the labor of caretaking. These things often fall, as the pandemic starkly revealed, on mothers. Trying to find a way out of the loneliness and individualism of 21st century parenthood, Emily finds joy in reaching outwards, towards art and literature-such as the maternal messiness of Louise Bourgeois or Greek myths about the power of fate-as well as the collective sustenance of friends and community.

With lyrical and enchanting prose, I Cannot Control Everything Forever is an inspired meditation on art, science, and motherhood.

Includes bibliographical references.

Author's note -- Introduction -- Part One: Pregnancy. On being and not being pregnant -- Genetic testing and me -- Designing futures -- The night watch -- Part Two: Motherhood. Tiny earmolds -- Sweetness -- Stay at home -- Motherboard -- In your electronic arms -- Spinning webs -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Image credits.

An eloquent and intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in modern motherhood.

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