Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

Knocking Myself Up is a memoir by Michelle Tea that details her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40-year-old, queer, uninsured woman. It is written in intimate, gleefully TMI prose and includes a group of ride-or-die friends, a generous drag queen, and a lot of can-do pluck. Tea falls in love with a genderqueer a decade her junior and attempts biohacking herself a baby with black market fertility meds.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

From the acclaimed author of PEN/America Award, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea comes a hilarious, powerful, and taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40-year-old, queer, uninsured woman. Written in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, Knocking Myself Up is the irreverent account of Tea's route to parenthood—with a group of ride-or-die friends, a generous drag queen, and a whole lot of can-do pluck. Along the way, she falls in love with a wholesome genderqueer a decade her junior, attempts biohacking herself a baby with black market fertility meds (and magicking herself an offspring with witch-enchanted honey), learns her eggs are busted, and enters the Fertility Industrial Complex to carry her younger lover's baby.

With the signature sharp wit and wild heart that have made her a favorite to so many readers, Tea guides us through the maze of medical procedures, frustrations, and astonishments on the path to getting pregnant, wryly critiquing some of the systems that facilitate that choice (“a great, punk, daredevil thing to do”). In Knocking Myself Up, Tea has crafted a deeply entertaining and profound memoir, a testament to the power of love and family-making, however complex our lives may be, to transform and enrich us.

Weight: 232g
Dimension: 134 x 203 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780063210639