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Graceful Burdens

Roxane Gay

4.05/5 (5278 ratings)

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From New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay comes an unforgettable tale of nightmarish bureaucracy in which genetic profiling has redefined the “unfit mother.”

A trip to the library prompts one woman to question her fate in this galvanizing short story. For a woman like Hadley, deemed not acceptable to procreate, there’s only one recourse. Unlicensed for motherhood, she can alleviate her grief and frustration at a “baby library,” where a curiously endless supply of infants is available for a two-week loan. But the borrowed life that serves as a temporary balm leads to a journey of self-discovery that will forever change the direction of Hadley’s future.

Roxane Gay’s Graceful Burdens is part of Out of Line, an incisive collection of funny, enraging, and hopeful stories of women’s empowerment and escape. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

Format:: Kindle Edition

Pages:: 24 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Amazon Original Stories

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 154202062X

ISBN13:: 9781542020626

kindle Asin:: B08DR8X36Y

Graceful Burdens

Roxane Gay

4.05/5 (5278 ratings)

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From New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay comes an unforgettable tale of nightmarish bureaucracy in which genetic profiling has redefined the “unfit mother.”

A trip to the library prompts one woman to question her fate in this galvanizing short story. For a woman like Hadley, deemed not acceptable to procreate, there’s only one recourse. Unlicensed for motherhood, she can alleviate her grief and frustration at a “baby library,” where a curiously endless supply of infants is available for a two-week loan. But the borrowed life that serves as a temporary balm leads to a journey of self-discovery that will forever change the direction of Hadley’s future.

Roxane Gay’s Graceful Burdens is part of Out of Line, an incisive collection of funny, enraging, and hopeful stories of women’s empowerment and escape. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

Format:: Kindle Edition

Pages:: 24 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Amazon Original Stories

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 154202062X

ISBN13:: 9781542020626

kindle Asin:: B08DR8X36Y

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