What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who hoped to find love, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love. And then she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal—but was this normal? Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more.