Second Life

'Unexpected, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Amanda Hess (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2026
Abacus (Verlag)
978-0-349-14552-5 (ISBN)

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A moving, wry and thought-provoking memoir about having a baby with a rare genetic disorder - and how the internet has changed everything

'Acutely empathetic, thoroughly researched, funny, irreverent and moving' Observer
'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 fêted 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.

Amanda Hess is a critic at large for the New York Times. Her writing has received multiple awards, including a National Magazine Award for Public Interest (for her Pacific Standard article about online harrassment of women), a Sidney Award for an outstanding piece of socially-conscious journalism, a Mirror Award for best traditional article on the media industry, and a Newswomen's Club Front Page Award for criticism.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.5.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
ISBN-10	0-349-14552-0 / 0349145520
ISBN-13	978-0-349-14552-5 / 9780349145525
Zustand	Neuware