Name: Nine Moons
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Author: Gabriela Wiener
ISBN: 9781632062239

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gabriela Wiener

Publisher

Restless Books

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781632062239

Synopsis "Nine Moons "

From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.Women play all the time with the great power thats been conferred upon us: its fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly underneath that will turn into a baby to cuddle and spoil. When youre fifteen, the idea is fascinating, it attracts you like a piece of chocolate cake. When youre thirty, the possibility attracts you like an abyss.Gabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career by infiltrating Perus most dangerous prison, going all in at swingers clubs, ingesting ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. So at 30, when she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she looks forward to the experience the way a mountain climber approaches a precipitous peak.With a scientists curiosity and a libertines unbridled imagination, Wiener hungrily devours every scrap of information and misinformation she encounters during the nine months of her pregnancy. She ponders how pleasure and pain always have something to do with things entering or exiting your body. She laments that manuals for pregnant women dont prepare you for ambushes of lust or that morning sickness is like waking up with a hangover and a guilty conscience all at once. And she tries to navigate the infinity of choices and contradictory demands a pregnant woman confronts, each one amplified to a life-and-death decision.While pregnant women are still placed on pedestals, or used as political battlegrounds, or made into passive objects of study, Gabriela Wiener defies definition. With unguarded humor and breathtaking directness, Nine Moons questions the dogmas, upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, and paradoxes of the propagation of the species.

Gabriela Wiener

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Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975) is the author of the books Sexografías, Mozart with Priapism and Other Stories, Missed Call, They Say About Me, and the poetry book Exercises for the Hardening of the Spirit. Her texts have appeared in various anthologies and have been translated into English, Portuguese, Polish, German, French, and Italian. She was the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine in Spain and today regularly publishes opinion columns for the website of El Diario, Vice, and for the Spanish content of The New York Times, as well as a video column on la mula.

She won the National Journalism Award in her country for an investigative report on a case of gender violence. She is the creator of several literary performances that she has staged with her family and of the play How Crazy of Me to Fall in Love with You. She currently resides in Madrid.

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