Letters to an Embryo

by Jasna Kaludjerovic

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Pub Date 7 Apr 2025 | Archive Date 15 Nov 2025

Jasna Kaludjerovic

Biographies & Memoirs | OwnVoices | Self-Help

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Description

After a painful divorce, an extra embryo from the last IVF attempt is left frozen.

Three years later, the mother begins writing a diary, struggling to decide what to do with it. She feels responsible for giving it a chance to live but no longer wants to have a baby with her ex. 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 into her new life?

What will it take to make a decision?

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⚠️ Content Warning:

This memoir includes themes of infertility, IVF, divorce, emotional distress, and ethical dilemmas surrounding reproductive choices.

After a painful divorce, an extra embryo from the last IVF attempt is left frozen.

Three years later, the mother begins writing a diary, struggling to decide what to do with it. She feels...

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A Note From the Publisher

This is a translated edition of Pisma embrionu, originally published in Serbian by Čigoja Štampa. In English it is self-published. Translation is by Alice Copple-Tošić.

The book is a literary-autobiographical novel exploring the emotional and ethical complexities of embryo freezing after a breakup.

I’m deeply grateful to every reader who takes the time to engage with this story. Honest reviews are more than welcome — thank you for helping this book find its readers. 💛

This is a translated edition of Pisma embrionu, originally published in Serbian by Čigoja Štampa. In English it is self-published. Translation is by Alice Copple-Tošić.

The book is a...

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Advance Praise

“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

“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...

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