The stories and reflections by women in this book revolve around the most important relationships in our lives--the ones we sustain with our partners, our ex-partners, our parents, our children, our bodies, and ourselves. The most intimate and sometimes brutal complexities of these bonds are revealed through short, oneiric passages organized by thematic axes such as parenthood, beauty, childhood, death, and sex. Readers are sure to be moved by the ineffable, oftentimes messy beauty conjured by multiple female voices on these complex intimate subjects.