Karleen Pendleton Jiménez

Jimenez's talents as a screenwriter show in this well-paced memoir. She knows to offer only the most singularly unique circumstances of her situation, a butch-identified queer woman trying to get pregnant, and in doing so creates a solid case for the universality of motherhood and fertility issues. It's not who you are, but how this lonely journey makes you feel that has resonated with women of vastly varying backgrounds.

How to Get a Girl Pregnant is touching and humorous, and, it must be said, very sexy! Jimenez doesn't leave out the fun part of getting pregnant: SEX! (Guess you'll just have to read the book to figure out the rest.)… (more)