{"product_id":"9781639737833","title":"Spawning Season","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of National Book Critics Circle Award and Lambda Literary Award finalist VIROLOGY comes an intimate chronicle of queer family-making.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoon 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpawning Season\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 José Esteban Muñoz, Osmundson considers the ethics of child-rearing in the 21st century, the brutal wonder of caregiving, and the joys and intricacies of building family beyond biology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Osmundson, Joseph","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48993546502398,"sku":"9781639737833","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/Spawning_Season.png?v=1789826897","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9781639737833","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}