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Buying Dad
Written by Harlyn Aizley
Published by Alyson Publications
What do two
nice Jewish
girls do when
they want to
start a family?
They can marry
two nice Jewish
boys. Or, if
they happen to
be lesbians,
they can buy
sperm online
from California!
Buying Dad
(Alyson
Publications,
July 2003) is a
hilarious, edgy,
first-person
chronicle of a
year in the life
of a woman
engaged in a
very alternative
family-planning
experience.
Peeling back the
layers of
self-indulgence
accumulated in
thirty-odd years
as a
self-proclaimed
gay, childless,
albeit happy
neurotic, Aizley
takes the reader
on one of the
most personal,
intimate, and
utterly female
journeys any
woman, gay or
straight, can
make - that of
becoming a
mother.
Aizley's story
begins with the
search for sperm
- Known or
unknown donor?
Delivered on dry
ice or in a
nitrogen tank?
The journey
unfolds within
the context of
her relationship
with her female
partner, her
mother's
diagnosis of
cancer, the
threat of her
own possible
infertility, and
finally
pregnancy
itself.
Aizley's wry
voice and candid
prose embrace
this confluence
of major life
events with the
humor and wisdom
that make Buying
Dad accessible
not only to
other lesbians,
but to any woman
who ever has
considered
ending a
lifetime of
sleep-filled
nights and
becoming a
parent.
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