Expecting by Chitra Ramaswamy
“A cartoon fried egg. An eye. The tiniest of black holes. It needed a professional eye to be seen, but once pointed out it was undeniable. My own little Big Bang. The beginning of it all.” When Chitra Ramaswamy discovered she was pregnant, she longed to read something that went above and beyond a biology book or prescriptive manual; something that, instead, got to the heart of this thrilling, bewildering, overlooked, and often misrepresented experience. Expecting is a creative memoir. Through nine chapters exploring the nine months of pregnancy and birth, Ramaswamy takes the reader on a physical, intellectual, emotional, literary, and philosophical journey through the landscape of pregnancy. Childbearing and childbirth are experiences defined both by the measurable monthly changes to one’s life and body, and by those immeasurable, often obscured and neglected changes in perspective which are accessed through metaphor, art, and emotion. Ramaswamy bears witness to the individual and collective experience of pregnancy in this intimate yet expansive book of wild and lyrical essays, paying tribute to this most extraordinary and ordinary of experiences.
Chitra Ramaswamy is an author and journalist. Her second book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Canongate) is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a German Jewish refugee and Holocaust survivor called Henry Wuga. It won the Non-Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland's National Book Awards and was included in The Guardian’s top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (Saraband) won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and a new edition has been released in 2024. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi:ble, and Message From The Skies and a book of micro-essays, Rich Things, for the Alasdair Gray Archive. She writes for the Guardian, is the restaurant critic for the Times Scotland, broadcasts for BBC radio, and is currently working on her third book. She is from London and lives in Edinburgh.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781915089991 |
| ISBN 10 | 1915089999 |
| Title | Expecting |
| Author | Chitra Ramaswamy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Saraband / Contraband |
| Year published | 2024-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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