This is the anxiety-inducing story of a new mother navigating the life-altering experience of having a child. Sailor is the child, sailing through life bolstered by the love of his mother. Soldier is the mother, fighting the new and constant battle between her desire to be a good mother and all that she has to abandon to be one. An incredible portrayal of how you can wholeheartedly love your child and loathe the burden motherhood puts on women in a society that doesn’t prioritize community, compassion or care. Every new mother may see themselves in this book, but every new father should read it. “Here’s my ennobling truth, Sailor: women risk death to give life to their babies. They endure excruciating pain, their inner parts torn, then they pick themselves up no matter what state they are in, no matter how much blood they’ve lost, and they tend to their infants. Your fires on Orion and your Luke, I am your father. Tell me, men: When were you last split open from the inside?”