My Miserable Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy

Andrea Askowitz

Apr 2008 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

In this memoir of her 40 weeks and five days in hell, Andrea Askowitz takes an unflinching look at her pregnant life from struggling with hormones to poor body image to a self imposed exile from family to take us on a ride through the turbulence of single lesbian motherhood. Along the way we meet her liberal parents as they struggle with their daughter's choices, the lover she longs to reconnect with who goes M.I.A. before the pregnancy, the friends who turn out to be no help at all and strangers who offer up some unlikely kindness. Andrea presents herself real, raw, impossibly cranky yet deeply touching with her self-deprecating dark sense of humor that will make you wince or better yet send you into uncontrollable fits of laughter.

Ratings and reviews

I first read this book when it first hit the shelves 3 years ago, loved every minute of this hilarious account of one woman's pregnancy and the many predicaments she finds herself in when nothing is going according to plan! Now, I'm 26 weeks pregnant with my first and just left my partner after spending an excruciating amount of time going back and forth on just how many lives I would be altering simultaneously. It hurts tremendously but I can't say it's a more prominent feeling than the relief I feel in knowing, it's over. We were broken beyond repair and I really want to spend the last trimester focused on my son who will be arriving late November and all of the aspects of my life that should have been taking front stage instead of my indecisiveness over questions I knew all the answers to. Andrew Askowitz, thank you for making me feel so much relief and bittersweet humor over a shared experience!

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About the author

Andrea Askowitz is a full-time mom, writer and founder of Bike Out, a non-profit created to introduce gay and lesbian inner city kids to the outdoors. She performs and produces the program "Lip Service: True Stories Out Loud" at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida. “Andrea Askowitz brilliant debut memoir is the exact kind of thing I’m always looking for at the bookstore—something that reads like an intimate yet super funny, painfully true letter from my very best friend. Andrea is like a girl version of David Sedaris or Augusten Burroughs, mining perfect comedic moments from the very worst of life’s offerings. You don’t have to be miserable, lonely or a lesbian to completely relate to the hilarious journey that is Andrea’s life.”—Jill Soloway, writer on Six Feet Under “This is one whiny, bitchy pregnant lady—and you can’t help but love her. Askowitz is funny and fearless.”—Louise Sloan, author of Knock Yourself Up: A Tell-All Guide to Becoming a Single Mom “Hilarious and all too true. After my own miserable lesbian pregnancy, Andrea Askowitz’s confessions cheered me up immeasurably.”—Ariel Gore, author of The Hip Mama Survival Guide