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One of the most groundbreaking memoirs of the twenty-first century, Nelson’s blazingly intelligent and emotionally perceptive account of her partner Harry’s gender fluidity is luminous, hugely enlightening reading.
Nominated for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.
A timely and genre-bending memoir that offers fresh and fierce reflections on motherhood, desire, identity and feminism.
At the centre of The Argonauts is the love story between Maggie Nelson and the artist Harry Dodge, who is fluidly gendered. As Nelson undergoes the transformations of pregnancy, she explores the challenges and complexities of mothering and queer family making.
