Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: I Cannot Control Everything Forever A Memoir Of Motherhood Science And Art
Author(s): Bloom Emily C.
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250285683
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 4/16/2024
Category: Advice On Parenting