Status Updates From In Vitro: On Longing and Tr...

okay so this book is not at all what I thought it was and is in fact 99% about pregnancy/ potential motherhood/ IVF

“Sleeping is something we learn in endless rehearsals, and the trance between wakefulness and slumber is so traumatic that some of us spend our childhoods trying to avoid it. In the end, the lesson is as simple as “fake it till you make it”: close your eyes as if you were asleep, go to the office as if you liked your job, set the alarm as if you enjoyed going out for a run at 7am”

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