Parent Trip: Unexpected Roads to Form a Family
Autor Anndee Hochmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 feb 2026
Hochman recounts the fraught emotions of couples struggling with infertility, the joy of a single gay man becoming a father in his forties, and the anxiety of people waiting for the adoption worker to call with good news. Parent Trip tells of sperm donors and gestational surrogates, midwives and miscarriages; it chronicles how children prompt parents to recalibrate their lives.
In personal essays that weave throughout the profiles, Hochman connects her interviewees’ lives to the love, heartbreak, and uncertainty in her own path to parenthood. Through myriad mundane and extraordinary moments, Parent Trip not only chronicles the magic and labor of childrearing, it also celebrates the infinite ways real families come to be.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439926475
ISBN-10: 1439926476
Pagini: 196
Ilustrații: 40
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
ISBN-10: 1439926476
Pagini: 196
Ilustrații: 40
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Recenzii
“Hochman’s warm, conversational writing invites you in. You feel as if you’ve been handed a mug of tea as you sit at the kitchen counter listening, as someone shares their most intimate stories. The decision to be a parent may have been an easy one, but all of these tales reveal a complicated journey, many with surprising twists. It’s a credit to Hochman that she earned this level of trust with her Parent Trip families. There’s such warmth and honesty revealed in these tales.... What resonates is the shared experiences of all these people becoming families despite all the obstacles, setbacks, and tragedy.”—Broad Street Review
“Parent Trip show[s] us as part of the larger picture of family diversity and explore[s] how our many aspects of identity intertwine.... [T]his highly recommended volume is a must-read.”—Mombian
“I defy anyone to read these moving accounts of people’s diverse journeys into parenthood and still think there is only one way to become and be a loving family. A fascinating read.”—Stephanie Coontz, author of The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap
“This book is so full of love I wanted to press it to my heart and give it a hug. Anndee Hochman intersperses the story of her own journey to becoming ‘Ama’ with stories of how other families came to be. There is so much tenderness and toughness and strength and vulnerability in these pages. Some of the stories made me laugh out loud; others brought tears to my eyes. Each reaffirmed this sentence from my book, Heather Has Two Mommies: ‘The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.’ Parent Trip is a love song to parents and children everywhere. It is a joy to read.”—Lesléa Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies and Joyful Song: A Naming Story
“Parent Trip show[s] us as part of the larger picture of family diversity and explore[s] how our many aspects of identity intertwine.... [T]his highly recommended volume is a must-read.”—Mombian
“I defy anyone to read these moving accounts of people’s diverse journeys into parenthood and still think there is only one way to become and be a loving family. A fascinating read.”—Stephanie Coontz, author of The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap
“This book is so full of love I wanted to press it to my heart and give it a hug. Anndee Hochman intersperses the story of her own journey to becoming ‘Ama’ with stories of how other families came to be. There is so much tenderness and toughness and strength and vulnerability in these pages. Some of the stories made me laugh out loud; others brought tears to my eyes. Each reaffirmed this sentence from my book, Heather Has Two Mommies: ‘The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.’ Parent Trip is a love song to parents and children everywhere. It is a joy to read.”—Lesléa Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies and Joyful Song: A Naming Story
Notă biografică
Anndee Hochman is a freelance writer, educator and storyteller. She is the author of Anatomies: A Novella and Stories and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home. For nine years, she wrote the weekly "Parent Trip" column in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her articles, essays and commentaries have appeared in WebMD, Poets & Writers, O, the Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Philadelphia magazine, Broad Street Review and other publications. She is a twelve-time Moth Story Slam winner and tied for the first-place title in Philadelphia's 2022 GrandSlam.