{"product_id":"i-cannot-control-everything-forever-a-memoir-of-motherhood-science-and-art-9781250285683","title":"I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*One of TIME magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024*\u003cbr\u003e* A \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year* \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn eloquent and\u003cb\u003e intimate debut \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ememoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in modern motherhood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Cannot Control Everything Forever\u003c\/i\u003e is Emily Bloom's journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions regarding genetic testing and diagnosis, technologies that offer the illusion of certainty but carry the weight of hard decisions. Her desire to know more thrusts her back into the history of science, as she traces the discoveries that impacted the modern state of pregnancy and motherhood. With the birth of their daughter, who is diagnosed with congenital deafness and later, Type 1 diabetes, Emily and her husband find their life centered around medical data, devices, and doctor's visits, but also made richer and fuller by parenting an exceptional child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Emily learns, technology and data do not reduce the labor of caretaking. These things often fall, as the pandemic starkly revealed, on mothers. Trying to find a way out of the loneliness and individualism of 21st century parenthood, Emily finds joy in reaching outwards, towards art and literature-such as the maternal messiness of Louise Bourgeois or Greek myths about the power of fate-as well as the collective sustenance of friends and community. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith lyrical and enchanting prose, \u003ci\u003eI Cannot Control Everything Forever\u003c\/i\u003e is an inspired meditation on art, science, and motherhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily C. Bloom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.31h x 5.69w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250285683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024 pg. 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEMILY C. BLOOM\u003c\/b\u003e is a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College, where she teaches literature. She also coordinates lifelong learning programs at the Wartburg Adult Care Community in Mount Vernon, NY. Her book \u003ci\u003eThe Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the First Book Prize by the Modernist Studies Association. She lives with her family in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43778227634291,"sku":"9.78125E+12","price":32.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_c46c1e87-6959-4d49-811e-97d565456ca8.jpg?v=1757506759","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/i-cannot-control-everything-forever-a-memoir-of-motherhood-science-and-art-9781250285683","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}