New York State Writers Institute's video: Christa Parravani author of Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice Children and Womanhood

New York State Writers Institute director Paul Grondahl speaks with Christa Parravani, the author of Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood, which chronicles her struggle to access necessary medical care when she became pregnant with her third child in West Virginia. From an interview with Entertainment Weekly published in November, "When Parravani, a mother of two under significant financial and marital stress, unexpectedly became pregnant, she tried to seek an abortion in West Virginia, where her family lived at the time — but was obstructed by logistical roadblocks as well as dishonest medical staff at every turn. When she gave birth to her son, Keats, she faced a new problem: He was also dangerously underserved by the broken health care system, as were her two young daughters." Buy Loved and Wanted at The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza. https://www.bhny.com/book/9781250756848 “Searing. . . . A devastating indictment of how environmental contamination and inadequate healthcare harmed [Parravani’s] children born in West Virginia. This is a powerful account of what many women face in the U.S. today.” ― Publishers Weekly