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In the wake of Texas enacting a bill to deny abortions after 6 weeks, Loved andWanted shines a light on motherhood and the right to choose. In 2017, Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to WestVirginia. Surviving on a teacher's salary, she was already raising two young childrenwith her husband, screenwriter Anthony Swofford.Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her second child, came as a shock.Christa had a history of ectopic pregnancies and was worried that she wouldn't beable to find adequate medical care. She immediately requested a termination - buther doctor refused to help. The only doctor who would perform an abortion made itclear that this would be illicit, not condoned by her colleagues or their community. In exploring her own choice, or rather in discovering her lack of it, Christa revealsthe desperate state of female healthcare in contemporary America. A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice inTrump's America. For readers of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy.

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'The writing is stunningly good' - The Bookseller 'A brutally honest, rollercoaster of a journey that left me championing her bravery.' - Esther Freud 'Christa's writing is fearless and beautiful. Loved and Wanted is about women's reproductive freedoms, and lack of them, but it's also a book about motherhood, identity, marriage, home and belonging. Extraordinary, incredibly powerful, and breathtakingly honest.' - Clover Stroud

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Christa Parravani is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoir Her,which shares Parravani's journey through grief after the loss of her identical twinsister Cara. She is an Assistant Professor in Creative Non-fiction at West VirginiaUniversity.

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