Silent Sorority

De: Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Silent Sorority, a seminal memoir, has new relevance amid a troubling resurgence in pronatalism. With an updated epilogue and added research it's a must read for 2025. With candor, humor and poignancy, the book reveals the intense and at times absurd experience of adjusting to a life as a 'non-mom' when nature and science don't cooperate in the family-building department. Outside of the physical reckoning there lies the challenge of moving forward in a society that assigns outsized value to parents and 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. Irreverent as well as moving, Silent Sorority offers a contrarian point of view in an era of mommy influencers, designer babies and helicopter parents. Winner of the Team RESOLVE Choice Award for Best Book and a recommended resource in Our Bodies, Ourselves.

About the Author: Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos (Sig-din-us) is an award-winning author, freelance writer, and infertility survivor. Pamela's work has been profiled in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, SLATE, Center for Genetics and Society, STAT, Women's eNews, ABC-10, The American Prospect, The New Atlantis, and the Ottawa Citizen. Her writing is featured in a variety of publications including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, FORTUNE, STAT, San Francisco Chronicle, WIRED, and Marie Claire, among other outlets.