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Trying: A Memoir
If you're writing about your life in real time, are you inherently fucked? Over the years that...
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If you're writing about your life in real time, are you inherently fucked?
Over the years that Chlo? Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she'd read everything she could find on infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience; for one thing, most stories ended with in vitro fertilization, a baby, or both. She wanted to offer something different. Caldwell began a book. She imagined a selective journal about her experience coping with stasis and uncertainty. Is it time to quit coffee, find a new acupuncturist, get another blood test? Her questions extended to her job at a clothing boutique and to her teaching and writing practice. Why do people love equating publishing books with giving birth? What is the right amount of money to spend on pants or fertility treatments? How much trying is enough? She ignored the sense that something else in her life was wrong that was not on the page . . . until she extracted a confession from her husband. Broken by betrayal but freed from domesticity, Caldwell felt reawakened, to long-buried desires, to her queer identity, to pleasure and possibility. She kept writing, making sense of her new reality as it took shape. With the candor, irreverence, and heart that have made Caldwell's work beloved, Trying intimately captures a self in a continuous process of becoming--and the mysterious ways that writing informs that process.Author: Chloe Caldwell
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781644453476
About the Author
Chlo? Caldwell is the author of Women, the memoir The Red Zone, and the essay collections I'll Tell You in Person and Legs Get Led Astray. Her essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Bon App?tit, The Cut, Autostraddle, Longreads, and Nylon.
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