Waiting for Daisy a tale of two continents, three religions, five infertility doctors, an Oscar, an atomic bomb, a romantic night, and one woman's quest to become a mother

Peggy Orenstein is the author of Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap , and Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids and Life in a Half-Changed World. A Contributing Writer to the New York Times Magazine , her work has also appeared in The Los Angeles Times, USA Today , Elle , Vogue , Discover , MORE , Mother Jones , Salon , and The New Yorker . She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Steven Okazaki, and their daughter, Daisy Tomoko.