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Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman’s love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day. Parravani paints an utterly necessary, groundbreaking portrait of so much more than one woman’s choice, offering a fierce and essential explication of the many forces that constrain reproductive freedom. This is a book about marriage, about being a woman, about work and motherhood and desire and loss and all the ordinary tragedies and raptures of family. But this is also a book about how broken our healthcare system is, about an entrenched and toxic class divide that damages our lives and harms the bodies of our children. In a country riven by the need to reduce, to simplify, to ignore, Loved and Wanted challenges us to pay attention, to hold complexity, and to understand why we have to do better.