{"product_id":"expecting-chitra-ramaswamy-9781915089991","title":"Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of a \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e memoir of the year 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When Chitra Ramaswamy discovered she was pregnant for the first time, she longed to read something that went above and beyond a biology book or prescriptive manual; something that, instead, got to the heart of the overwhelming, thrilling, and often misrepresented experience she was embarking on. She couldn't find one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, she wrote \u003ci\u003eExpecting.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExpecting \u003c\/i\u003eis a creative memoir. Through nine chapters exploring the nine months of gestation 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 one's life and body, and by those immeasurable, often obscured and neglected changes in perspective that are accessed through metaphor, art, and emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRamaswamy bears witness to the experience of pregnancy in an intimate yet expansive book of lyrical essays, paying tribute to this most extraordinary and ordinary of experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chitra Ramaswamy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915089999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915089991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Saraband\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Chitra Ramaswamy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465621688575,"sku":"9781915089991","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_683e2398-93cd-47c9-8386-edbb4969bab6.jpg?v=1736346797","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/expecting-chitra-ramaswamy-9781915089991","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}