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A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Rom
Bloomsbury Publishing
February 2007
On Sale: February 6, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 1596910178
EAN: 9781596910171
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Waiting for Daisy is about loss, love, anger and redemption.
It’s about doing all the things you swore you’d never do to
get something you hadn’t even been sure you wanted. It’s
about being a woman in a confusing, contradictory time. It’s
about testing the limits of a loving marriage. And it’s
about trying (and trying and trying) to have a baby.
Orenstein’s story begins when she tells her new husband that
she’s not sure she ever wants to be a mother; it ends six
years later after she’s done almost everything humanly
possible to achieve that goal, from “fertility sex” to
escalating infertility treatments to New Age remedies to
forays into international adoption. Her saga unfolds just as
professional women are warned by the media to heed the
ticking of their biological clocks, and just as fertility
clinics have become a boom industry, with over two million
women a year seeking them out. Buffeted by one jaw-dropping
obstacle after another, Orenstein seeks answers both medical
and spiritual in America and Asia, along the way visiting an
old flame who’s now the father of fifteen, and discovering
in Japan a ritual of surprising solace. All the while she
tries to hold onto a marriage threatened by cycles,
appointments, procedures and disappointments. Waiting for
Daisy is an honest, wryly funny report from the front, an
intimate page-turner that illuminates the ambivalence,
obsession, and sacrifice that characterize so many modern
women’s lives.
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