From the Governor Generals Award-shortlisted author of The Most Precious Substance on Earth comes a breathtaking and sharply funny collectionabouttheeveryday trials and impossible expectations that come with being a woman.

What would have happened if shed met him at a different time in her life, when she was older, more confident, less lonely, and less afraid? She wonders not whether they would have stayed together, but whether she would have known to stay away.

A writer discovers that her ex has published a novel about their breakup. An immunocompromised woman falls in love, only to have her body betray her. After her boyfriend makes an insensitive comment, a college student finds an experimental procedure that promises to turn her brown eyes blue.A Reddit post about a mans habit of grabbing his girlfriends breasts prompts a shocking confession. An unsettling second date leads to the testing of boundaries. And when a woman begins to lose her hair, she embarks on an increasingly nightmarish search for answers.

With honesty, tenderness, and a skewering wit, these stories boldly wrestle with rage, longing, illness, and bodily autonomy, and their inescapable impacts on a womans relationships with others and with herself.

Paperback | 216 pages | 5.18″ x 8.00″