After a painful divorce, an extra embryo from the last IVF attempt was left frozen.
Three years after the divorce, the author begins writing a diary, trying to decide what to do with it. She feels responsible to give it a chance to live, but doesn't want to have a baby with her ex anymore... So, she will write letters to the embryo for a long time, trying to decide what to do...
Does it have the right to live?
How will it fit with her new life?
What will it take to make a decision?
(If you like Glennon Doyle or Peggy Orenstein, this book is for you)
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Content Warning:
This memoir includes themes of infertility, IVF, divorce, emotional distress, and ethical dilemmas surrounding reproductive choices.
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Editorial Reviews
"Raises intriguing, morally complex, and timely issues."
- Kirkus Reviews

"About divorce, loneliness, and healing after betrayal, Letters to an Embryo is an intimate memoir. "
- Foreword Clarion Reviews
"Jasna Kaludjerovic's vulnerable memoir is about processing the dissolution of her marriage through letters to their last frozen embryo."
- Foreword Clarion Reviews

"The letters spend significant time on the role of women in society and how she now sees her own place in the world. She had always wanted to be a mother, but now she is wrestling with who she is."
-BlueInk Review
"In this sweet, poignant memoir, Jasna Kaludjerovic writes to her last viable frozen embryo, deciding whether to go ahead with a pregnancy when she and her husband-the embryo's 'papa' - are divorcing. She mourns the demise of her marriage but seizes on her newfound freedom to find a new man and craft a new career."
- BlueInk Review