Nelson’s insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book. Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making. The book discusses her romantic relationship with the transgender artist Harry Dodge leading to her pregnancy as well as topics ranging from the death of a. At its centre is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. We follow along her descriptive journey of falling in love with her partner, Harry Dodge, born Wendy Malone and her experience as she goes through pregnancy with their child, Iggy, and raising Harry’s son from a previous marriage. The Argonauts is a must-read. Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of ‘autotheory’ offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking about desire, identity and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. The Argonauts is a magnificent achievement of thought, care and art.Los Angeles Times A daring, intelligent, strange, and beautiful book. The book, The Argonauts, takes us into the intimate world of the main character and author, Maggie Nelson. Nelson has created an essential thing, a guide to the first years of the queer 21st Century, and a hymn to love in all its forms. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language and family An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of 'autotheory' offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. The Argonauts is a magnificent achievement of thought, care and art.Los Angeles Times A daring, intelligent, strange, and beautiful book.

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