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“In this memoir of love and loss, Lisa Manterfield dares to reveal the depths of her desperation, and in so doing, dares to reveal the depths of her heart.”
~ Jennie Nash, author of
The Victoria’s Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming
and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer

“I’m Taking My Eggs And Going Home is a wonderful book, full of heart and hope. As funny as it is moving. I couldn’t put it down.”
~ Carrie Friedman, author of
Pregnant Pause: My Journey Through Obnoxious Questions,
Baby Lust, Meddling Relatives, and Pre-Partum Depression

“Lisa tackles a taboo subject with candor and aplomb. Her voice is a welcome sanity check for women left to wonder how society became so fixated on motherhood.”
~ Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, author of
Silent Sorority: A (Barren) Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and Found

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I’m Taking My Eggs and Going Home:
How One Woman Dared to Say No to Motherhood

About the book:
This gritty, honest memoir traces Manterfield’s descent from rational 21st century woman to desperate mama-wannabe. She examines the siren song of motherhood and the truth about being childless in a mom-centric society. But this isn’t another infertility story with a miracle baby ending; this is a story about love, desire, and choices. It is the story of a woman who escapes her addiction, not with a baby, but with her sanity, marriage, and sense-of-self intact.