The Art of Waiting av Belle Boggs

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<p><b>A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertility</b><br><br>When Belle Boggs''s "The Art of Waiting" was published in <i>Orion</i> in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in <i>Harper''s Magazine</i>, an interview on NPR''s <i>The Diane Rehm Show</i>, and a spot at the intersection of "highbrow" and "brilliant" in <i>New York</i> magazine''s "Approval Matrix."<br><br>In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her--the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo--for signs that she is not alone. Boggs also explores other aspects of fertility and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film <i>Raising Arizona</i>; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from <i>Macbeth</i> to <i>Who