There’s a madwoman upstairs, and only Megan can see her. In present-day Chicago, Megan Weiler is postpartum, ravaged and sore. She's facing motherhood alone while her husband travels for work. Between bouts of breastfeeding and exhaustion, she's feeling guilty about her unfinished dissertation on mid-century children’s literature and brainstorming passive aggressive ways to keep her narcissistic mother from visiting. Enter a new upstairs neighbor: the ghost of quixotic children’s book author Margaret Wise Brown, who has moved in behind a turquoise door that no one else in the condo building will acknowledge. Margaret has unfinished business with her former partner, the once-famous poet and actress Michael Strange, and she's intent on drawing Megan into the fray. As Michael joins the haunting, Megan is caught in the wake of a terrible power struggle—and until she can untangle this historical lovers’ quarrel, she and her newborn daughter are in a peculiar kind of danger. Using Megan’s postpartum haunting as a powerful metaphor to explore a woman’s fraught relationship to her body and mind in the wake of her daughter’s birth, Julia Fine delivers another “barely restrained, careful musing on female desire, loneliness and hereditary inheritances,” (Washington Post) in her sophomore novel.