A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before
feeling like a grown up.
When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and
decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a
brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and
existential impact of motherhood -- didn't exist. So she decided to
write it herself.
And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of the
cataclysmic, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother.
With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector, O'Connell addresses
the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy, the
fantasies of a "natural" birth experience that erode maternal
self-esteem, post-partum body and sex issues, and the fascinating
strangeness of stepping into a new, not-yet-comfortable identity.
Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken,
And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank, funny, and
visceral motherhood story for our times, about having a baby and
staying, for better or worse, exactly yourself.
Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book made me ache
with recognition." -- Cheryl Strayed