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Elizabeth Rush: Quickening (2023, Milkweed Editions) 5 stars

An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, …

beautiful

5 stars

A writer joins a research ship to Antarctica and entangles the story of climate change and polar exploration with that of pregnancy and bringing life into our future, with glaciers collapsing, with the crew and scientists lives and hopes and wonder. Beautiful.

replied to Rainer's status

@rainer I would guess not, this book is limited to pre-parenting in one way or another, the uncertainties of new terrain, and leans to forgiveness over judgement. While I may have missed a traumatic trigger, the big obvious ones for parents don't feature here.