Second Life
'Unexpected, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma 'Acutely empathetic, thoroughly researched, funny, irreverent and moving' Observer
A moving, wry and thought-provoking memoir about having a baby with a rare genetic disorder - and how the internet has changed everything
'What a book!' Marianne Levy, author of Don't Forget to Scream
'I loved it' Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence
In Second Life, Hess tells her deeply personal story of a pregnancy that falls outside the fĂŞted category of 'normal'. But this is also a story about all of us. For as she made her way through a bizarre digital world of pregnancy apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, rare disease Facebook groups, 'freebirth' influencers and hospital reality shows, Hess realised that ideas of eugenics, surveillance, ableism and hyper-individualism are being sold through shiny technologies to a new generation of parents.
'Unexpected, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma 'Acutely empathetic, thoroughly researched, funny, irreverent and moving' Observer
A moving, wry and thought-provoking memoir about having a baby with a rare genetic disorder - and how the internet has changed everything
'What a book!' Marianne Levy, author of Don't Forget to Scream
'I loved it' Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence
In Second Life, Hess tells her deeply personal story of a pregnancy that falls outside the fĂŞted category of 'normal'. But this is also a story about all of us. For as she made her way through a bizarre digital world of pregnancy apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, rare disease Facebook groups, 'freebirth' influencers and hospital reality shows, Hess realised that ideas of eugenics, surveillance, ableism and hyper-individualism are being sold through shiny technologies to a new generation of parents.
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'Unexpected, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma 'Acutely empathetic, thoroughly researched, funny, irreverent and moving' Observer
A moving, wry and thought-provoking memoir about having a baby with a rare genetic disorder - and how the internet has changed everything
'What a book!' Marianne Levy, author of Don't Forget to Scream
'I loved it' Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence
In Second Life, Hess tells her deeply personal story of a pregnancy that falls outside the fĂŞted category of 'normal'. But this is also a story about all of us. For as she made her way through a bizarre digital world of pregnancy apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, rare disease Facebook groups, 'freebirth' influencers and hospital reality shows, Hess realised that ideas of eugenics, surveillance, ableism and hyper-individualism are being sold through shiny technologies to a new generation of parents.
