{"product_id":"spawning-season-an-experiment-in-queer-parenthood-hardcover","title":"Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Osmundson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Osmundson's 2022 essay collection \u003ci\u003eVirology \u003c\/i\u003eestablished the NYU professor as a voice of his generation...In \u003ci\u003eSpawning Season\u003c\/i\u003e, Osmundson looks at queer parenthood and the natural world\" -\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A singular and deeply moving book. Osmundson has birthed a profound meditation on family and food, longing and loss, hope and grief, humans and salmon. In his story, we find a multitude of beautiful, complicated ways of imagining the future-and then working to build one.\" -Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winner and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAn Immense World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of National Book Critics Circle Award and Lambda Literary Award finalist VIROLOGY comes an intimate chronicle of queer family-making.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince grade school, Joseph Osmundson dreamed of being pregnant. As he grew into the queer scientist he is today, the economic precarity of academia and the warming planet led to his decision not to reproduce. That is, until a lesbian couple he had known since college came to him with a proposition: would Joe be a bio-dad and would he co-parent alongside them? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoon everything was falling into place. But when the two partners communicated their need for a child to reflect their own racial backgrounds, Joe's whiteness exposed fault lines in their parenting journey. \u003ci\u003eSpawning Season\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-bending memoir that treats the scientific as integral to the personal and that builds an entire species of the grief we carry in our bodies. In exploratory prose that builds on the work of Donna Haraway and José Esteban Muñoz, Osmundson considers the ethics of child-rearing in the 21st century, the brutal wonder of caregiving, and the joys and intricacies of building family beyond biology.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Osmundson\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of microbiology at New York University and the author of \u003ci\u003eVirology\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been published in leading biological journals including Cell and PNAS and in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eAtlantic, TIME\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives and works in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53226418471209,"sku":"9781639737833","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4960\/5929\/files\/ycLK8axc2N9781639737833.webp?v=1780499122","url":"https:\/\/www.thescholarssourcebookstore.co\/products\/spawning-season-an-experiment-in-queer-parenthood-hardcover","provider":"The Scholar's Source","version":"1.0","type":"link"}