Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, and infused with raging sexual fantasies and fierce maternal love -- quintessentially Miranda July.

Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman in her 40s who lives with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people's babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women's self-defense non-profit where she works. She believes they've been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate in this one.

When Cheryl's bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter Clee can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl's eccentrically-ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee -- the selfish, cruel blond bombshell -- who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime.

The spectacular debut novel from the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of All Fours that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny readers will be blown away.