Description:"Offers credible descriptions of first-time motherhood, affecting characters and situations and low-key charm."–Kirkus Reviews
"Stellar . . . Center paints an accurate and humorous view of motherhood."–Booklist
Jenny Harris always expected that she'd fall in love, get married, and have a baby–in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn't mind that she and her live-in fiancé, Dean, accidentally started their family a little earlier than planned; she's happy to have so much to look forward to. But Dean–whom Jenny loves enough to overlook his bad facial hair, his smoking habit, and his total commitment to a cheesy cover band–is acting distant, and not in a pre-wedding-jitters kind of way. The night he runs out for cigarettes and just doesn't come back, he demotes himself from future husband to sperm donor.
And the very next day, Jenny goes into labor.
In the months that follow, Jenny plunges into a life...