Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1: Deciding to Read Noam Chomsky
Chapter 2: The First Innate Truth
Chapter 3: New Year’s
Chapter 4: Hollandaise Sauce
Chapter 5: Writing
Chapter 6: Workshop
Chapter 7: Showering
Chapter 8: Lunch with Elle
Chapter 9: Joining a Gym
Chapter 10: Loneliness
Chapter 11: Stars
Chapter 12: The Day After
Chapter 13: Remembering
Chapter 14: Success
Chapter 15: Meeting
Chapter 16: The First Date
Chapter 17: The Phone
Chapter 18: The First Time Having Sex with John
Chapter 19: Really Good Sex
Chapter 20: Being in Love
Chapter 21: Christmas
Chapter 22: San Francisco
Chapter 23: Attempting to Swim
Chapter 24: A Room with a View
Chapter 25: An Average Day in the First Month of Living in San Francisco
Chapter 26: Rochelle
Chapter 27: The Beginning of the Descent
Chapter 28: Fristmas
Chapter 29: The Reading
Chapter 30: Blackfish
Chapter 31: Routine
Chapter 32: Getting Engaged
Chapter 33: Wedding
Chapter 34: Pregnancy
Chapter 35: Annabelle
Chapter 36: Other Mothers
Chapter 37: Vacation
Chapter 38: Walking to CVS in the Rain
Chapter 39: A Conversation with a Three-Year-Old About a Barbie
Chapter 40: Lunch with Elle
Chapter 41: Baby Number 2
Chapter 42: Annabelle Starts School
Chapter 43: Dee Dee
Chapter 44: Period
Chapter 45: School Play
Chapter 46: A Call from Elle
Chapter 47: Leda and Her Mom
Chapter 48: You and I
Chapter 49: Writing Group
Chapter 50: Horace
Chapter 51: Crying at Commercials
Chapter 52: The End of Forever
Chapter 53: Waiting for a Table
Chapter 54: The Last Innate Truth
Chapter 55: Gardening
Chapter 56: Never Reading Noam Chomsky
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author