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Double Pregnant

Two Lesbians Make a Family

Natalie Meisner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Published:18th Jul '14

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Girl meets girl. Girl marries girl. They want to have babies - but they need a little help. Double Pregnant is author Natalie Meisner's light-hearted, poignant and informative true story of two lesbians who want to have children. For a variety of reasons, one being that Natalie's wife is a woman of colour who was adopted into a white family, the couple decides not to take the anonymous sperm clinic route. Natalie and Vivien want their children to have some connection to their donor if possible. Taking matters into their own hands leads the couple to a series of often-hilarious "dates" with potential donors, all of whom have wildly different opinions on how the donation process should go and also of what this new, twenty-first-century version of a family will look like.

"This book is so full of life and love, of effort and desire and the determination of two extraordinary women devoted to each other and to having a family." - Chapelle Jaffe, Canadian actor "What an accomplishment, to have written a page turner on a subject like this that is both moving and very funny." - Inge Fraters, Editor-in-Chief, KJIK Magazine & Know How Sonoma Publishing "A passionate and engaging account of a lesbian couple's struggle to have a family. The book is not about sexuality or gender identity; it's about love." - Beth Everest, writer, professor and editor

ISBN: 9781552666012

Dimensions: 14mm x 22mm x 1mm

Weight: 510g

192 pages