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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Editor's Choice:

“This honest, neurotic, searingly funny memoir is a welcome antidote in the panicked-expectant-mothers canon. Read this, I’ll reply in the future when friends ask me for my pregnancy Google docs. It will make you feel less alone.”

―Isabel Wilkinson

NPR:

“O'Connell renders this normal and horrific experience real, in both emotional sweep and brutal particulars … this joyous, useful, grim book tells it straight.

―Annalisa Quinn

THE GUARDIAN:

“Her book is a testament, a gift to mothers … as well as to everyone else.”

―R.O. Kwon

THE RUMPUS:  

With a steady-handed, acerbic candor … a firm grounding in the reality of new parenthood that rings alarmingly, unerringly true."

―Carla Bruce-Eddings 

LITHUB: 

O’Connell’s writing is so visceral, so immediate, that it made my nipples hurt.

―Jennifer Schaffer

THE MILLIONS: 

Each story she tells is sharply observed, wickedly funny, and painfully important. I have never read anything about parenthood that so clearly encapsulates what it feels like.

―Melody Schreiber