On the eve of the release of her fourth album, emerging folk singer Aviva Rosner is struggling to get pregnant. The twist: as much as Aviva desperately wants a child, she is ambivalent about the science that helps women conceive, and she has poured all her thoughts and feelings about it into her music. As the album makes its way in the world, the overwhelming shock of the response it receives from fans and critics is at first exciting-and then invasive and strange. Aviva never wanted to be a spokesperson for the anti-assisted reproductive technology set, or did she? Meanwhile, Aviva's journey to motherhood is interrupted by her obsession with another iconic singer, gone too soon, whose story and songs have worked their way into Aviva's consciousness. Maybe The Singer's struggle will lead Aviva to the right answers about her own.
Told over the course of nine months, Human Blues is a bold, brainy, darkly funny, and foulmouthed indictment of the options women have when trying to conceive-and also one fearless woman at the crossroads of fame and fertility, searching for what she wants and what she's willing-or not willing-to do to get it.
