Synopsis

A dazzling collection of hilarious andheart-wrenching stories united bya groundbreaking theme: each is a sidelong glance at the lives of womenwho either by choice or by circumstance will never be mothers and who feelevery way it is possible to feel about it. A dancer discovers she can never have children a revelation that pales in comparison to the other ways her body has betrayed her. Two elderly sisters whove been inseparable throughout life make amomentous decision. A wet nurse at Coney Islands infamous Incubator Babies sideshow is haunted by the ghost of her own stillborn daughter. A young woman worries about the lack of male role models in her little nieces life For the women in Wait Here, who cant, dont or wont have children, childlessness is a hard-won prize, a freedom, a stain, a joy, a battle, a trifle, a conundrum, a wound, an uneasy comfort on a burning planet. It is nothing. It is everything.

This is a standard paperback/soft cover version.