Contents

Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1: Before It Gets Better

Chapter 2: The Island of Misfit Gays

Chapter 3: Our Daughter, Fu-Ling

Chapter 4: Can We Borrow Your Lady Parts for Nine Months?

Chapter 5: Um, Sperm

Chapter 6: The Womb of Steel

Chapter 7: The Wounded Bird

Chapter 8: How We Met Your M-Word

Chapter 9: More Than an Aunt, Less Than a Mom

Chapter 10: What’s-Her-Womb

Chapter 11: Into Their Bodies, Out of Our Hands

Chapter 12: Breeders

Chapter 13: Puppy-Kicking Doodyheads

Chapter 14: Susie and the Beast

Chapter 15: The Ten Excruciatingly Long Days of Christmas

Chapter 16: IPs in the Closet

Chapter 17: The Sad Happy Face

Chapter 18: A Family Outing

Chapter 19: Bye Bye, Bubble

Chapter 20: The Wedding We’d Never Had

Chapter 21: Tiffany’s Replacement

Chapter 22: Fourth of July with the Family

Chapter 23: One Last Peaceful Sleep

Chapter 24: Pioneers Again

Chapter 25: Another Coming-Out Story

Chapter 26: Heart-Stopping

Chapter 27: The Lottery

Epilogue

Acknowledgments