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Future Tense

Future Tense

Thomas, Kelly Grace

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 13, 2026

ISBN10: 1967149046
ISBN13: 9781967149049
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

Reckoning with infertility, adoption, and love under pressure, Kelly Grace Thomas's Future Tense is a searing memoir-in-verse about a woman's fight to become a mother while losing her own.


Thomas spends three years trying for a child who never arrives. As she struggles with infertility, her mother is dying of Stage IV uterine cancer, and the desire for a child turns urgent--a countdown. As her mother's health deteriorates, time narrows, pressure builds, and the clock refuses to slow. As her marriage strains and the world remakes itself without her, Thomas refuses to give up. The fertility clinic is the coldest place on earth; still, she keeps going--through years of medical gaslighting, IVF consults, mounting debt, and backhanded blame--finally welcoming her daughter through adoption just months before her mother's death.

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