Danit Brown holds an MFA in fiction from Indiana University. Her stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Story, Glimmer Train, StoryQuarterly, and One Story. Her short story collection, Ask for a Convertible, was published in 2008. Brown currently teaches at Albion College in Michigan.
""Fans of Rachel Cusk and Rachel Yoder, watch out: This knockout of a novel will have you up all night, frantically turning pages. Rarely have I felt so seen by a depiction of early motherhood, of the maternal mental load, of the cataclysmic changes women undergo when an infant enters their lives. I loved it and can't stop thinking or talking about it."" —Joanna Rakoff, author of internationally bestselling book, My Salinger Year ""A sheer pleasure of a novel, written with all the gruesome grace and grit of a trusted friend with whom you can be completely, unselfconsciously honest. What a rare and precious thing in life, let alone literature."" —Elisa Albert, author of Book of Dahlia