According to the CDC, one in every nine women who give birth experience postpartum depression, and yet narratives exploring what it’s like to live it are few and far between—especially in literary fiction. Enter Albert’s 2015 novel, a brutally honest (and sometimes scathingly hilarious) chronicle of the mental and physical tolls of motherhood. “A baby opens you up, is the problem,” says new mother Ari. “There’s before and there’s after. To live in your body before is one thing. To live in your body after is another.”