Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood
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Book Overview "Osmundson's 2022 essay collection Virology established the NYU professor as a voice of his generation...In Spawning Season, Osmundson lo...
"Osmundson's 2022 essay collection Virology established the NYU professor as a voice of his generation...In Spawning Season, Osmundson looks at queer parenthood and the natural world" -Boston Globe
"A singular and deeply moving book. Osmundson has birthed a profound meditation on family and food, longing and loss, hope and grief, humans and salmon. In his story, we find a multitude of beautiful, complicated ways of imagining the future-and then working to build one." -Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World
From the author of National Book Critics Circle Award and Lambda Literary Award finalist VIROLOGY comes an intimate chronicle of queer family-making.
Since grade school, Joseph Osmundson dreamed of being pregnant. As he grew into the queer scientist he is today, the economic precarity of academia and the warming planet led to his decision not to reproduce. That is, until a lesbian couple he had known since college came to him with a proposition: would Joe be a bio-dad and would he co-parent alongside them?
Soon everything was falling into place. But when the two partners communicated their need for a child to reflect their own racial backgrounds, Joe's whiteness exposed fault lines in their parenting journey. Spawning Season is a genre-bending memoir that treats the scientific as integral to the personal and that builds an entire species of the grief we carry in our bodies. In exploratory prose that builds on the work of Donna Haraway and Jos
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Publisher: BLOOMSBURY | ISBN: 1639737839
FormatHardcover
ISBN1639737839
EAN9781639737833
PublisherBLOOMSBURY
Publication Date2026-05-26
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Age GroupUncategorized
Weight0.7 Pounds
Length8.4 Inches
Width5.7 Inches
Height1.0 Inches
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