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Mother of Invention
Mother of Invention | Caeli Wolfson Widger
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What will a mother sacrifice to have it all? Meet Silicon Valley executive Tessa Callahan, a woman passionate about the power of technology to transform women's lives. Her company's latest invention, the Seahorse Solution, includes a breakthrough procedure that safely accelerates human pregnancy from nine months to nine weeks, along with other major upgrades to a woman's experience of early maternity. The inaugural human trial of Seahorse will change the future of motherhood--and it's Tessa's job to monitor the first volunteer mothers-to-be. She'll be their advocate and confidante. She'll allay their doubts and soothe their anxieties. But when Tessa discovers disturbing truths behind the transformative technology she's championed, her own fear begins to rock her faith in the Seahorse Solution. With each new secret Tessa uncovers, she realizes that the endgame is too inconceivable to imagine. Caeli Wolfson Widger's bold and timely novel examines the fraught sacrifices that women make to succeed in both career and family against a backdrop of technological innovation. It's a story of friendship, risk, betrayal, and redemption--and an unnerving interrogation of a future in which women can engineer their lives as never before.
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This book starts as a look at what society demands from women and if we can truly "have it all" with career and family, by the end it shifts a little bit from that to expand into a larger plot of government cover-up, privacy invasion through social media, big pharma and medical consent. Slow-ish start but picks up once the accelerated gestation project starts. Includes brief reference to actual modern bioethics concerns like CRISPR gene editing.

Slajaunie So real life? 6y
BookFreakOut @Slajaunie The main fictional experiment is about accelerating pregnancy from 9 months to 9 weeks, but most everything else is very reflective of current issues. 6y
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