Laura believes that her greatest gift to the planet is to not have children. She doesn’t hate sex, but doesn’t particularly like it either and “the idea of being expected to do it all the time seemed exhausting.” But a one-night stand with an appealing man posing as a family friend (I won’t spoil how surprising this scenario is) soon changes the no-children part of the equation. Cut to Laura as a single mother—albeit one with a nice Upper East Side living situation and a robber baron great-grandfather—and you’ve got a funny and odd in-the-best-way book that reflects a slice of New York life in the ’80s and ’90s.
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