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Imogen in Waiting
By Lindsay Bartels
“Imogen, I need to tell this story so that I can imagine you in my shoes—these shoes that are now on my feet. I don’t really want to look at them, but I have them, which means that you just might, too.”
When twenty-six-year-old Lindsay Bartels is diagnosed with breast cancer, she also learns she is a carrier of the BRCA1 gene. To not pass on the cancer-causing gene, Lindsay and her husband undergo IVF, only to find themselves with three viable embryos: two healthy males and one female—with BRCA1.
Imogen in Waiting is the story of a mother grappling with an impossible decision—whether or not to bring a daughter just like her into being—while also asking some of life’s biggest questions: What makes for a life worth living? How do we live with our decisions? How do we navigate the unknown? Told to her female embryo, Imogen, Lindsay’s story is both human and God-like, about both agency and surrender, capacity and limitations—and how life is always happening in the middle of it all.
ISBN: 979-8-9912123-8-0
8.5” x 5.5” | 267 pages
$18.95
Forthcoming in paperback, ebook, and audiobook
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