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Belle Boggs is the author of The Gulf, a novel; the nonfiction book The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine and Motherhood; and the story collection Mattaponi Queen. She has published work in Ecotone, Orion, Ploughshares, and Harper's, among other publications. She grew up in King William County, Virginia and is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University. ...more

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On Twitter, where I spend more of my social media time these days (@BelleBoggs, that’s me), people have been posting early 2016/now photos that represent how they feel. I don’t have any kittenish photos of Mischief (RIP), but this sums up my mien, post-November 8:

Anyway! I am giving mostly books for Christmas presents. Here are some top picks:

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	The Little Virtues: Essays by Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (Translation), Belle Boggs (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.09 avg rating — 5,717 ratings — published 1962 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood 3.77 avg rating — 1,276 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulf 3.49 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mattaponi Queen 4.05 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South by Samia Serageldin (Editor), Lee Smith (Editor), Steve White (Narrator) 3.90 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For the Public Good: Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism by May-lee Chai (Contributor), Belle Boggs (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Camille T. Dungy (Contributor) 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leave No Child Inside by Belle Boggs (Goodreads Author), John Elder, Medicine Grizzlybear Lake 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glimmer Train Stories, #60 by Susan Burmeister-Brown (Editor), Linda B. Swanson-Davies (Editor), Eric Weinberger 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Hazlitt Essay Prize 2013 The Winners by Michael Ignatieff, Andrew O'Hagan, J.T. Barbarese liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives

by Jane Brox

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Milkman

by Anna Burns

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

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“The pregnant body suggests a story we think we know: health, love, happiness.”
― Belle Boggs, The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood

tags: pregnancy

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“The life an infertile person seeks comes to her not by accident and not by fate but by hard-fought choices. How to put together the portfolio of photographs. How to answer at the home study. What clinic or doctor or procedure. Donor egg or donor sperm or donor embryo. Open or closed adoption. What country, what boxes to check or uncheck. What questions to ask, and ask again. When to start and when to stop. What to say when her child says, Tell me my story.”
― Belle Boggs, The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood

tags: adoption, infertility, ivf

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“It is undignified to inject yourself with hormones designed to slow or enhance ovarian production. It is undignified to have your ovaries monitored by transvaginal ultrasound; to be sedated so that your eggs can be aspirated into a needle; to have your husband emerge sheepishly from a locked room with the “sample” that will be combined with your eggs under supervision of an embryologist. The grainy photo they hand you on transfer day, of your eight-celled embryo (which does not look remotely like a baby), is undignified, and so is all the waiting and despairing that follows.”
― Belle Boggs, The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood

tags: dispair, embryology, fertility, infertility, ivf, medicine, reproductive-health, undignified, waiting

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What should we read for the July Graywolf Press Book Club?

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee

3 votes 23.1%

The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry by Charles Simic

3 votes 23.1%

Skirmish: Poems by Dobby Gibson

2 votes 15.4%

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

2 votes 15.4%

Mattaponi Queen: Stories by Belle Boggs

1 vote 7.7%

Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

1 vote 7.7%

The Stranger Manual: Poems by Catie Rosemurgy

1 vote 7.7%

Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy

0 votes 0.0%

To Siberia by Per Petterson

0 votes 0.0%

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland

0 votes 0.0%

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