RESOLVE Honors Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos at 13th Annual Night of Hope Celebration
Author of Silent Sorority, a Singular Book That Gives Voice to the Complex Experience of Living with Infertility in a Fertile World, Earns National Award
September 27, 2010 – SAN JOSE, CA -- RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association will honor Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, author of Silent Sorority, with the Team RESOLVE™ Choice Best Book Award at the 2010 Hope Awards event on September 28, held at Guastavino’s in New York City. The awards program recognizes individuals and companies who have positively impacted the millions of women and men struggling with the disease of infertility.
Tsigdinos has become an internationally recognized spokeswoman for the often overlooked community of women unable to have children. She 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. The author not only tells her own story of healing in Silent Sorority, but is able to step back and provide an intelligent social commentary on our mommy-centric culture and what it's like to be unintentionally childless.
Says Tsigdinos, "Most people don’t realize that the vast majority of infertility treatments don’t succeed; in 2006, 57 percent of IVF cycles using women's own eggs failed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
Silent Sorority fills a void in the “repro lit” category. It’s the first book that reveals the complex experience of living with infertility in a fertile world not authored by a mother. “What sets the book apart is that Tsigdinos talks about the ‘what now?’ -- how she gained acceptance and found a place for herself in the world,” said one reader. “This is a book I want to give to people I know to read. It's a book that says, ‘This is what I went through, this is why I was behaving that way back then, but you know what? I'm okay now.’”
Barbara Collura, Executive Director of RESOLVE, adds, “RESOLVE congratulates Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos and all the 2010 Night of Hope Award recipients. We’re honored as the patient advocacy group to be able to bring the family building community together to celebrate all our achievements.”
About Silent Sorority
Snappy and irreverent as well as moving, Silent Sorority offers a contrarian point of view in an era of helicopter parents. The author, Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, first made her private story public in a New York Times profile, “Facing Life Without Children When It Isn’t By Choice.” Silent Sorority had its roots in an internationally celebrated blog called Coming2Terms about adjusting to life as a “non-mom.” Silent Sorority is available as an ebook via the Apple iPad, BarnesandNoble.com, Kobo, Smashwords or Sony eReader, and as an ebook or in print from Amazon.com. ISBN 978-1439231562. For more information visit http://www.silentsorority.com.
About RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association
Founded in 1974, RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, headquartered in McLean, VA, is the oldest and largest consumer-based, nonprofit group that provides education, advocacy and compassionate support for those struggling with infertility in the United States. Each year, RESOLVE and its nationwide network of affiliates handle more than 1.5 million contacts from people seeking information and help. For more information, visit the RESOLVE website at www.resolve.org.
To interview Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos (pronounced Sig-din-us), contact her at ptsigdinos@yahoo.com. For more information on the Night of Hope and the other awardees, contact Shawn Taylor Zelman at szelman@resolve.org or visit www.resolve.org/nightofhope.
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Pamela Tsigdinos, ptsigdinos@yahoo.com
