“Beautifully drawn and generously told, Catalogue Baby is a harrowing journey through fertility treatments and pregnancy loss. Despite her many struggles, Myriam Steinberg approaches the story with humour and heart. The result is an open, affecting look at the desolation of infertility, the power of community and the tenacity of hope.” ”
About Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)fertility
Catalogue Baby is an award-winning graphic novel about Myriam's years of trying to conceive a child as a single woman. It’s a journey rife in ups and downs, victories and tragedies, crazy-making moments, lonely wastelands, intense joys, and soul-challenging experiences.
Throughout her journey, Myriam found that there were very few books that delved into the wide range of ways that elusive pregnancies and fetal loss happen and affect the people touched by them.
Catalogue Baby seeks to break the silence and taboos surrounding miscarriage and infertility. Hopefully by reading it, people will feel less lonely in their struggle. It is also meant to be a resource for the support networks of people struggling with loss and/or infertility (including their family members, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances), as well as for people in general to understand that a journey to babies is not always an easy one.
The book is an honest, compassionate, funny and devastating look into Myriam’s journey.
Illustrated by Christache Ross:
Christache Ross is an illustrator and actor living and working in Vancouver. When he's not drawing and painting pictures he can often be found teaching theatre and illustration to kids.
““Thanking… Myriam for her brilliant book, “Catalogue Baby”. It was such a unique and clever idea of Myriam to publish her book in graphic form. I can see it becoming a bestseller. It will help so many depressed young women all over the world who yearn to have their own baby. Christache is a very talented illustrator. He manages to portray all Myriam’s feelings of joy disappointment, anger, hopelessness, stoic optimism. The drawings and script are humorous as well as deeply touching…. It is also an example to all of us never to give up no matter if the odds are against us, but to strive and work… towards our ideals in life!” ”