It is the story of a love: Maggie Nelson falls in love with Harry Dodge, an artist with a fluid gender identity. Harry already has a child, and Maggie becomes pregnant; together, they build a life as a family of four. "The Argonauts" is a moving tale of queer family life. At the same time, Maggie Nelson invents her own form of philosophical exploration. Memoir, theory, poetry: it is a book that defies categorization and challenges our classifications with its radically open thinking. In the spirit of Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Maggie Nelson combines theoretical and personal quests for understanding to arrive at a new narrative about the nature of love and family.