Waiting for Daisy
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—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“[A] startling and touching memoir.”
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“[A] funny, honest new book...Fertility issues have become Topic A; even the Dixie Chicks have a song about it. Orenstein’s chronicle of her baby obsession is both quirkily her own and in tune with the moment.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Her book is a startling portrait of how the quest to deliver a baby in this brave new world of endless’ fertility can derail even the most confident, accomplished woman.”
—San Jose Mercury News
“Her painfully candid and moving memoir deftly wipes the Vaseline coating off the lens of modern motherhood and exposes it for the messy business it is.”
—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Orenstein...bares her soul in Waiting for Daisy, opening old wounds and giving readers a frank look into her personal, at times heart-wrenching journey to motherhood.”
—Contra Costa Times
“The Rocky of infertility memoirs.”
—New York magazine
“If you have thrown your dreams of parenthood into the chill of the laboratory, this book will bring every memory to the surface. If you are thinking about supplementing old-fashioned procreation with science, this book is a good field-guide to what lies ahead. And if you are a woman in your 30s, this book should ring like a warning bell in the night—at 37, you move into the elderly gravid’ cohort, and the chances that you’ll become a mother start to drop dramatically.”
—HeadButler.com
“Orenstein...brings her erudition and intelligence to bear on her own experience.”
—San Francisco magazine
“Orenstein renders her experience in beautiful prose.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Intimate, funny/sad and remarkably self-revealing.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“While readers don’t have to be fertility-obsessed to enjoy this very witty memoir, for the growing number of women struggling with infertility this book may become their new best friend."
—Publishers Weekly
To protect the privacy of the persons involved, and in the interest of narrative clarity, some names and details in this book have been changed or altered.
Copyright © 2007 by Peggy Orenstein
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Portions of this book appeared in altered form in the New York Times Magazine.
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:
Orenstein, Peggy.
Waiting for Daisy : a tale of two continents, three religions, five infertility doctors,
an Oscar®, an atomic bomb, a romantic night, and one woman's quest to become a mother / Peggy Orenstein. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-59691-871-9
1. Orenstein, Peggy. 2. Infertility, Female—Patients—United States—Biography.
3. Fertilization in vitro, Human—Popular works. 4. Human reproductive
technology—Popular works. I. Title.
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