The Brotherhood of Joseph

by Hansen, Brooks

• ISBN13: 9781594868276
• ISBN10: 1594868271
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-27
• Publisher: Modern Times

Summary

While miracles in reproductive technology have brought joy to millions, those very advances have plunged many couples into an unrelenting cycle of hope and heartbreak. One failed attempt may lead to another and anotherbut how do you give up when there is always another doctor, another procedure holding out the possibility of conception and the child you yearn for? Brooks Hansen vividly captures the emotional turmoil he and his wife, Elizabeth, endured as they tried to concieve, the years their lives were put on hold, and the excruciating sense of loss. He writes too of the couple's journey through the bewildering world of adoptiona path to parenthood fraught with financial, legal, and emotional risks of its own. Offering men a chance to be heard and women a rare opportunity to view the struggle with infertility from a male perspective,The Brotherhood of Josephbrings to life the anger, frustration, humor, heartbreak, and sense of helplessness that come to dominate the husband's role. As his remarkable account reaches its finale in Siberia, however, Hansen's once again becomes the story of a husband and a wife who, even after years of medical frustration and fruitless paperwork, still must take one last risk together and trust in their most basic instincts before their new family can be born. "Literary grace that has the remarkable power to act as a lens" is how theNew York Times Book Reviewhas described Hansen's writing, and that grace has never been more evident than in this remarkable memoir.

Author Biography

BROOKS HANSEN has written five novels and his work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Best Life, Open City, Grand Street, and Bookforum. He and Elizabeth live with their children, Theo and Ada, in California.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Infertility
The Trouble Starts	p. 3
IVF, A-Z	p. 23
The Toll	p. 44
The Work	p. 63
The Last Stand	p. 72
Adoption
Adoption, in Prospect	p. 77
Getting Started	p. 87
Romania?	p. 98
Russia!	p. 109
The Trip
Highs and Lows	p. 131
Tomsk!	p. 149
Ilya	p. 156
Sergei	p. 182
The Wait	p. 212
The Verdict	p. 218
Epilogue	p. 240
Acknowledgments	p. 243
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