Inconceivable, Valerie Bauman
Inconceivable, Valerie Bauman
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Inconceivable
Super Sperm Donors, Off-the-Grid Insemination, and Unconventional Family Planning

Author: Valerie Bauman

Narrator: Valerie Bauman

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2024

Synopsis

Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this community, Valerie Bauman uses her own story as a lens into this movement of people attempting to dodge the costly and often discriminatory world of sperm banks and fertility clinics. Inconceivable is a window into the unfair legal, financial, and medical entanglements that compel many single women and LGBTQ+ couples to take their fertility into their own hands.

About Valerie Bauman

Valerie Bauman is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of experience. She is currently an investigative reporter at Newsweek. Previously, she was a senior investigative reporter and senior legal reporter at Bloomberg Law, where she covered the pharmaceutical litigation beat. Bauman has also worked at Newsday and The Associated Press, where she covered Hurricane Katrina from the Mississippi bureau, and later the New York State legislature as a political reporter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julia

Thank you to Netgalley and Union Square & Co for the ARC of Inconcievable! This was a first-hand account of the harrowing process of fertility treatments in less-conventional forms. The author is a single mother who sought to pursue motherhood via sperm donation, and who chose to circumvent formal s......more

Goodreads review by Jaclyn

This book is a deep dive into unregulated sperm donation that takes place outside of sperm banks. The author wanted to have a child and decided to find a sperm donor online. She preferred that to the anonymity of sperm banks in part for the sake of her future child. She wanted to find a donor who wo......more

Goodreads review by Kasi

This was one of the most fascinating books I have ever read in my life. Valerie is an outstanding writer and it was a pleasure to read her writing - and she wrote about something that I ordinarily never would have chosen - sperm donation. When I first requested the book from NetGalley, I requested an......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

I’ve been excited to read this book every since I first found out it was happening (full disclosure: I know the author in real life.) I already knew Valerie was a great journalist but I was very interested to see how she would interweave her own story into this. I read this in less than a day. It’s......more

Quotes

Interweaving the details of her own path to motherhood and interviews with doctors, donors, and expectant parents, Bauman builds a captivating and often humorous portrait of DIY pregnancy.... Bauman’s rigorous curiosity keeps the pages turning. It’s a wide-ranging portrait of contemporary motherhood that entertains and informs in equal measure.

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