The Argonauts

Nominated for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017 An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family. A timely and genre-bending memoir that offers fresh and fierce reflections on motherhood, desire, identity and feminism. At the centre of The Argonauts is the love story between Maggie Nelson and the artist Harry Dodge, who is fluidly gendered. As Nelson undergoes the transformations of pregnancy, she explores the challenges and complexities of mothering and queer family making. NOMINATED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. NOMINATED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2017.