Imogen in Waiting: A Memoir of Modern Reproduction -- Lindsay Bartels, Paperback
When twenty-six-year-old Lindsay Bartels is diagnosed with breast cancer, she also learns she is a carrier of the BRCA1 gene. To not pass on the cancer-causing gene, Lindsay and her husband undergo IVF, only to find themselves with three viable embryos: two healthy males and one female-with BRCA1.
IMOGEN IN WAITING is the story of a mother grappling with an impossible decision-whether or not to bring a daughter just like her into being-while also asking some of life's biggest questions: What makes for a life worth living? How do we live with our decisions? How do we navigate the unknown? Told to her female embryo, Imogen, Lindsay's story is both human and God-like, about both agency and surrender, capacity and limitations-and how life is always happening in the middle of it all.
Author: Lindsay Bartels
Publisher: Third Rail Press
Published: 6/16/2026
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69 lbs
Size: 8.5" H x 5.5" L x 0.61" W
ISBN: 9798991212380