The Argonauts Audiobook

Quotes

• “A superb exploration of the risk and the excitement of change…[a] collaboration between Nelson’s mind and heart.”

  — New Yorker

• “In this gender-bending memoir, Maggie Nelson writes about the way both their bodies were changing, and about the intricacies of building her queer family.”

  — New York Times

• “Slays entrenched notions of gender, marriage, and sexuality with lyricism, intellectual brass, and soul-ringing honesty.”

  — Vanity Fair

• “A beautiful, passionate and shatteringly intelligent meditation on what it means not to accept binaries but to improvise an individual life that says, without fear, ‘yes, and.’”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “A loose yet intricate tapestry of memoir, art criticism, and gently polemic.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “An honest, joyous affirmation of one happily unconventional family finding itself.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “A fiercely provocative and intellectually audacious memoir that focuses on motherhood, love, and gender fluidity.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “[An] incredibly rich autobiographical meditation…Nelson blends philosophical inquiry, memoir, and gender criticism.”

  — Library Journal

• “Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture’s prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.”

  — Ben Lerner, award-winning author of Leaving the Atocha Station

• “What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to ‘pay homage to the transitive’ and enjoy ‘a becoming in which one never becomes.’ Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.”

  — Eula Biss, author of Notes from Nowhere