What’s a Lemon Squeezer Doing in My Vagina? is a memoir of Rohini S Rajagopal’s excruciating five-year long fight with infertility and her journey to motherhood. After several failed attempts at natural conception and many negative home pregnancy tests, the author and her husband Ranjith visit a fertility centre in Bangalore. Rajagopal delivers a graphic description of the physical and emotional unpleasantness of her infertility treatment and also gives a vivid account of her experiences with the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) such as the intrauterine insemination (IUIs), in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) is facilitated by directly injecting a man’s sperm into the woman’s uterus around the time the eggs emerge from the ovaries. In in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), the eggs are retrieved from the female body and carefully fertilised in a laboratory using sperm to create an embryo which will then be transferred to the uterus. In the more advanced intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) a single selected sperm is directly injected into the retrieved egg, leading to fertilisation. And as with IVF, the fertilised embryo is then transferred to the woman’s uterus. The “lemon squeezer” in the title of the memoir represents the arduous path Rohini Rajagopal had to take; the invasion of her body by medical tools, fertility drugs, hormonal treatments, medical tests, and minor surgeries, which she endured over the years to successfully conceive. These procedures lead to unavoidable anxieties concerning their outcome, where Ranjith, her husband, becomes a mere spectator to her journey, unable to help with the medical functionalities of the treatment. He experiences and manages his own anxieties separately to Rajagopal.