Silent Sorority: A Barren Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and Found

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439231567 ISBN 13: 9781439231562

Publisher: BookSurge Publishing, 2009

From celebrity and news magazines to TV programs to Facebook pages and mommy blogs, family-building successes are routinely and glowingly shared and celebrated. But where are the voices of those who are unable to have children? In relating what happens when nature and science find their limits, Silent Sorority examines a seldom acknowledged outcome and raises provocative, often uncomfortable questions usually reserved for late night reflection or anonymous blogging. Outside of the physical reckoning there lies the challenge of moving forward in a society that doesn't know how to handle the awkwardness of infertility. With no Emily Post-like guidelines for supporting couples who can't conceive, most well-intentioned "fertile" people miss the mark. Silent Sorority offers an unflinching and insightful look at what it's like to be barren in an era of designer babies and helicopter parents. Silent Sorority received the 2010 Team RESOLVE Choice Award for Best Book.

About the Author:

Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos (Sig-din-us) is an award-winningauthor, blogger and infertility survivor. In her first book, Silent Sorority,Pamela shares with naked candor, humor and poignancy the intense and, at times,absurd experience of adjusting to a life as a "non-mom." Pamela andher book and blog have been profiled in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail,The American Prospect, The New Atlantis, The Broad Side, MORE magazine,MarketWatch and the Ottawa Citizen. Her writing is featured in a variety ofonline outlets including WIRED, The Huffington Post, FORTUNE and The New YorkTimes, just to name a few.

Review:

"This book is snappy, funny, and irreverent as well as moving. Silent Sorority does a great job addressing the invisibility of non-Moms." --More.com

"Silent Sorority is a brave book and a gift to all infertile women, whatever stage of the journey they may be on." --NBC/iVillage

"The author has the gift of using humor to get through the pain and she just nails the irony of life as a 'non-mom.' " -- Fertility Authority

"Tsigdinos has given a voice to infertile women's experience." --Bitch Magazine, Spring 2011