Letters to the doctor: Stonehenge -- Phase 1: Single. Light bites -- Letters to the doctor: The old-fashioned doctor -- Single and waiting for a reply -- Storm -- Letters to the doctor: Prescription -- The pamphlet -- Phase 2: True Love. Letters to the doctor: Love -- True love: Garlic chicken -- Letters to the doctor: Dinner party seating -- On and off the island -- Phase 3: Pregnancy. We have to stop: Fanstasy psychology session -- Stork dream: scroll -- The drive-in -- The night rope -- The raccoon -- Exerpt 1 from the play Schumacher -- Stork dream: Smash -- Seal scales -- Raccoon gossip -- Vision of water column -- The quake -- Birth visualization of Stone House -- Phase 4: Baby. Letters to the doctor: Crack running down? -- The great conjunction -- The stork bite -- Letters to the doctor: Hair nest -- A scream -- Exerpt 2 from the play Schumacher -- The garbage package -- Obituary 1 -- The blessings from the dishwasher -- Letters to the doctor: Going crone -- Obituary 2 -- Tuesday, 3:23 PM -- Letters to the doctor: Purple-dark hole 1 -- Headtrip -- Letters to the doctor: Purple-dark hole 2 -- Phase 5: Ongoing. The swan -- Lettie Schumacher memorial plaque -- The graduation speech -- Prayer: Fountain -- Acknowledgments.

"What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal--but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal? Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases--Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing--through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more."--Publisher.