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Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood

By Joseph Osmundson
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By Joseph Osmundson
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Spawning Season is a fascinating look at modern parenting, following scientist Joseph Osmundson’s personal, complex journey towards fatherhood. This is a thought-provoking exploration of queer parenting, relationships and masculinity.

"Osmundson's 2022 essay collection Virology established the NYU professor as a voice of his generation…In Spawning Season, Osmundson looks at queer parenthood and the natural world" -Boston Globe

“A singular and deeply moving book. Osmundson has birthed a profound meditation on family and food, longing and loss, hope and grief, humans and salmon. In his story, we find a multitude of beautiful, complicated ways of imagining the future-and then working to build one.” –Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-w...

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