Second Life: 'Unexpected, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Autor Amanda Hessen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iul 2026
'What a book!' Marianne Levy, author of Don't Forget to Scream
'I loved it' Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence
In Second Life, Hess tells her deeply personal story of a pregnancy that falls outside the fêted category of 'normal'. But this is also a story about all of us. For as she made her way through a bizarre digital world of pregnancy apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, rare disease Facebook groups, 'freebirth' influencers and hospital reality shows, Hess realised that ideas of eugenics, surveillance, ableism and hyper-individualism are being sold through shiny technologies to a new generation of parents.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349145525
ISBN-10: 0349145520
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349145520
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Acutely empathetic, thoroughly researched, funny, irreverent and moving ... Hess creates community through her brilliance with language .... beautiful but never airbrushed prose
Hess's debut memoir bursts with humor and intelligence as it weaves the story of her own pregnancy ... this unexpected page-turner is as vulnerable as it is sharp
Captures the anxiety and weirdness of reproduction in our modern screen-based, app-oriented culture. Insightful ... very funny
Spot-on and brutally funny
Amanda Hess is that rare thing, the real deal. Second Life is unexpected, intellectually rigorous, funny, beautiful; and the wisdom is hard-won. A major debut from a profoundly talented writer
Second Life is an excellent book. So interesting, astute and beautifully crafted. Amanda Hess interrogates new lands of contemporary parenthood with nuance, curiosity, smarts and heart. I loved it.
Second Life is a tender, perceptive account of pregnancy and early motherhood - and a stylish confrontation with the demented landscape of digital parenting content. It also happens to be a subtle indictment of a healthcare system that leaves some parents scrolling for alternatives. Hess is a smart, savvy, and generous guide
Second Life is indispensable ... frank, funny, searingly smart. A must read for anyone who has ever wondered what it means to parent in the digital age and an essential antidote for the information-overload they'll certainly be met with on the internet
There is no better writer than Amanda Hess to dissect the joys, fears, and humiliations that accompany having children in the information age, and no wittier chaperone through the strange world of surveillance, monetization, bureaucracy, and alternative medicine to which pregnant people and mothers are subjected. Second Life is a sharp, moving, sometimes harrowing, and always funny companion to some of the best and worst things life has to offer
The story of a crisis-born odyssey, Second Life charts a new mother's descent into and re-emergence from the internet's 'pregnant underworld' with clarity, rigor, and tremendous wit. That such a deft a vivisector of our digital age should find herself lost in its churn of data-brokerage, commerce, and myth is a reminder of what we're all up against, and an engine of Amanda Hess's bracing and eloquent memoir
New parents spend countless hours staring at our phones, scrolling for the comfort American systems fail to provide us. But pushed to the brink, only Amanda Hess could step through the blue light looking glass - journey through her specific, and our collective, anxiety, dissociation, data points, targeted ads, and apps - and emerge a more sensate, embodied, and sharper critic. The honesty of Second Life takes my breath away
Finally a book about parenthood that acknowledges that the internet is the first place we go to navigate pregnancy. Hess doesn't demonize or valorize it but rather serves as a smart - and very funny - guide to the good, the bad, and the truly weird of how we give birth today
What a book! It has the lyricism and intelligence of a literary masterpiece, and the urgency of a thriller; I read it in two sittings. Hess dissects the experience of modern childbearing with surgical precision, even as she holds out her heart. This is the book on motherhood the world needs right now.
Second Life is not only a book for parents; it's for anyone intrigued (and concerned) by the ways in which our digital footprints impact the circle of life itself
Smart, funny
'Interrogates new lands of contemporary parenthood with nuance, curiosity, smarts and heart' Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence
In the summer of 2020, when Amanda Hess was pregnant for the first time, a routine ultrasound screening detected a mysterious abnormality in her baby. This is her story - of a pregnancy that fell outside the feted catgegory of 'normal', and everything that happened afterwards. But as she made her way through a bizarre digital world of pregnancy apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, rare disease Facebook groups and 'freebirth' influencers, Hess realised that it is also a story about all of us.
'Unexpected, intellectually rigorous, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
'Captures the anxiety and weirdness of reproduction in our modern screen-based, app-oriented culture. Insightful ... very funny' Wall Street Journal
'Hess's debut memoir bursts with humour and intelligence ... this unexpected page-turner is as vulnerable as it is sharp' Vulture
Hess's debut memoir bursts with humor and intelligence as it weaves the story of her own pregnancy ... this unexpected page-turner is as vulnerable as it is sharp
Captures the anxiety and weirdness of reproduction in our modern screen-based, app-oriented culture. Insightful ... very funny
Spot-on and brutally funny
Amanda Hess is that rare thing, the real deal. Second Life is unexpected, intellectually rigorous, funny, beautiful; and the wisdom is hard-won. A major debut from a profoundly talented writer
Second Life is an excellent book. So interesting, astute and beautifully crafted. Amanda Hess interrogates new lands of contemporary parenthood with nuance, curiosity, smarts and heart. I loved it.
Second Life is a tender, perceptive account of pregnancy and early motherhood - and a stylish confrontation with the demented landscape of digital parenting content. It also happens to be a subtle indictment of a healthcare system that leaves some parents scrolling for alternatives. Hess is a smart, savvy, and generous guide
Second Life is indispensable ... frank, funny, searingly smart. A must read for anyone who has ever wondered what it means to parent in the digital age and an essential antidote for the information-overload they'll certainly be met with on the internet
There is no better writer than Amanda Hess to dissect the joys, fears, and humiliations that accompany having children in the information age, and no wittier chaperone through the strange world of surveillance, monetization, bureaucracy, and alternative medicine to which pregnant people and mothers are subjected. Second Life is a sharp, moving, sometimes harrowing, and always funny companion to some of the best and worst things life has to offer
The story of a crisis-born odyssey, Second Life charts a new mother's descent into and re-emergence from the internet's 'pregnant underworld' with clarity, rigor, and tremendous wit. That such a deft a vivisector of our digital age should find herself lost in its churn of data-brokerage, commerce, and myth is a reminder of what we're all up against, and an engine of Amanda Hess's bracing and eloquent memoir
New parents spend countless hours staring at our phones, scrolling for the comfort American systems fail to provide us. But pushed to the brink, only Amanda Hess could step through the blue light looking glass - journey through her specific, and our collective, anxiety, dissociation, data points, targeted ads, and apps - and emerge a more sensate, embodied, and sharper critic. The honesty of Second Life takes my breath away
Finally a book about parenthood that acknowledges that the internet is the first place we go to navigate pregnancy. Hess doesn't demonize or valorize it but rather serves as a smart - and very funny - guide to the good, the bad, and the truly weird of how we give birth today
What a book! It has the lyricism and intelligence of a literary masterpiece, and the urgency of a thriller; I read it in two sittings. Hess dissects the experience of modern childbearing with surgical precision, even as she holds out her heart. This is the book on motherhood the world needs right now.
Second Life is not only a book for parents; it's for anyone intrigued (and concerned) by the ways in which our digital footprints impact the circle of life itself
Smart, funny
'Interrogates new lands of contemporary parenthood with nuance, curiosity, smarts and heart' Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence
In the summer of 2020, when Amanda Hess was pregnant for the first time, a routine ultrasound screening detected a mysterious abnormality in her baby. This is her story - of a pregnancy that fell outside the feted catgegory of 'normal', and everything that happened afterwards. But as she made her way through a bizarre digital world of pregnancy apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, rare disease Facebook groups and 'freebirth' influencers, Hess realised that it is also a story about all of us.
'Unexpected, intellectually rigorous, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
'Captures the anxiety and weirdness of reproduction in our modern screen-based, app-oriented culture. Insightful ... very funny' Wall Street Journal
'Hess's debut memoir bursts with humour and intelligence ... this unexpected page-turner is as vulnerable as it is sharp' Vulture