04546cam a2200589 4500 742987150 TxAuBib 20230402120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250772411 1250772419 b1185b4a-a535-4eee-9936-d344e9986f50 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5390099 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Parravani, Christa. Loved and Wanted [Libby Audiobook] : A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood. Macmillan Audio, 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 142MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 141MB. autobiographical writing. personal narrative . Unplanned pregnancy. Reproductive choice. conservative laws. Gender studies. legal abortion. rural America. women studies. books on tape. womens health. West Virginia. womens rights. women memoirs. childbearing. audio books. motherhood. audiobooks. Healthcare. Red States. abortion. a memoir. HTML:<p><b>This program is read by the author.<br /></b><b>"Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in all its gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading." —Lisa Taddeo, #1 <i>New York Times</i>–bestselling author of <i>Three Women</i></b><br /> <b><br /> A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir <i>Her<br /></i></b><br /> Christa Parravani was forty years old, in a troubled marriage, and in bad financial straits when she learned she was pregnant with her third child. She and her family were living in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she had taken a professorial position at the local university.<br /> Haunted by a childhood steeped in poverty and violence and by young adult years rocked by the tragic death of her identical twin sister, Christa hoped her professor's salary and healthcare might set her and her young family on a safe and steady path. Instead, one year after the birth of her second child, Christa found herself pregnant again. Six weeks into the pregnancy, she requested an abortion. And in the weeks, then months, that followed, nurses obfuscated and doctors refused outright or feared being found out to the point of, ultimately, becoming unavailable to provide Christa with reproductive choice.<br /> By the time Christa understood that she would need to leave West Virginia to obtain a safe, legal abortion, she'd run out of time. She had failed to imagine that she might not have access to reproductive choice in the United States until it was too late for her, her pregnancy too far along.<br /> So she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Keats. And another frightening education began: available healthcare was dangerously inadequate to her newborn son's needs; indeed, environmental degradations and poor healthcare endangered Christa's older children as well.<br /> <i>Loved and Wanted</i> is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes for their children's lives.<br /> <b>A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company</b></p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-01 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/5390099-LovedAndWanted.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b1185b4a-a535-4eee-9936-d344e9986f50&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/5390099-LovedAndWanted.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b1185b4a-a535-4eee-9936-d344e9986f50&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) TXGID