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When she finds out she's pregnant with her first child, the narrator of The Zygote Chronicles is closer to forty years old than to twenty-two (the latter, she is informed by a homicidal-rampage-inducing pregnancy guide, being the ideal age to have a baby). What unfolds from her very first wry yet heartfelt memo to her unborn child is like a series of X rays into a pregnant woman's soul, mind, and appetites. Suddenly she is attuned to everything around and inside her and she doles out observations and words of wisdom to her unborn baby accordingly: how a pregnant woman's body becomes public property; the way everyone on the street fancies themselves part of the jury when it comes to choosing a name. She captures the many sensory changes her body goes through with uncanny precision and crackling wit, and ponders why her once storybook marriage to the man she waited for all her life suddenly undergoes an alchemical transformation every time he eats garlic or onions.
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Pamela Davies
reviewed The Zygote Chronicles on April 12, 2010 The Zygote Chronicles
I'm sure this falls into stage two chick lit -- the place where the mommy-gene takes over. I read Suzanne Finnamore's Otherwise Engaged a few years ago and loved it and so there was no hesitation when I realized she had a new book. The Zygote Chronicles are written in a confidential diary-like voice from mother to baby, capturing her journey from intent to delivery. This short novel is poignant and hilarious at once. Repeatedly, I found myself laughing out loud at moments like this:
"I think before a woman is really huge, before she looks like she is carrying a Louis XVI commode in her gut, people don't take her aches and pains seriously. I can't help feeling a gun would help. Just a small pistol strapped to my side, and when I complained about feeling bloated or headachey or nauseated, I would lightly finger the pistol" (70-71).
Finnamore's writing is a minefield of moments that made me chuckle, nod with understanding, wonder, ponder, and more. If I'd read this book with a pencil, marking my favorite bits, no page would be untouched.
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