For fans of Nightbitch, a darkly humorous debut novel asks what happens when motherhood isnt all its cracked up to be . . .

Estie isnt sure she likes being eight months pregnant. She isnt even sure she likes her husband anymore, especially after he hid that hes been fired from his job. Hello parenthood! Goodbye life as Estie imagined it! Now, shes stranded and bloated and alone. Her cat is not a people person, and on top of it all, her best friend has been ignoring her calls ever since Estie told her about the baby.

After Estie gives birth, she begins to suspect that all the stories shes been told about motherhood might not be true. Having a child does not complete her. And that mythical connection with her baby? Well, shes still waiting. In fact, Estie fears she is destined to end up like her own motherdivorced and crying in the bathroom while her daughter stands outside the door and wonders if shes okay.

Startlingly honest and unsentimental, Television for Women explores the realities of life postpartum, the demands children make on womens identities and relationshipsand the desperate lengths someone might go to in order to reclaim the person she once was.