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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. Itβs about doing all the things you swore youβd never do to get something you hadnβt even been sure you wanted. Itβs about being a woman in a confusing, contradictory time. Itβs about testing the limits of a loving marriage. And itβs about trying (and trying and trying) to have a baby. Orensteinβs story begins when she tells her new husband that sheβs not sure she ever wants to be a mother; it ends six years later after sheβs done almost everything humanly possible to achieve that goal, from βfertility sexβ 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 whoβs 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 womenβs lives.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - July 17, 2007
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