01341cam a2200253 4500 884785203 TxAuBib 20230725120000.0 230531s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023020930 9780063283626 HRD 30.00 006328362X HRD 30.00 TxAuBib Hall, Louisa, 1982-, author. Reproduction [BOOK] : a novel / Louisa Hall. 1st ed. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] 209 pages ; 22 cm. "A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life"-- Provided by publisher. 20230725. Women novelists Fiction. Pregnancy Fiction. Motherhood Fiction.