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Nora’s new memoir about how she has embraced being not fine and started moving towards the conversations most people try to avoid: conversations about death, and dying, about love and loss, about jealousy and bitterness and feminism and politics and religion.

A year after her husband’s death, she found herself in love again…and unexpectedly pregnant with a divorced father of two. From navigating life as an evil stepmother to raising feminist boys in Trump’s America, this is her story — stories, really — about living a life that's pretty great, even when it's terrible.

Nora McInerny Purmort was voted Most Humorous by the Annunciation Catholic School Class of 1998. It was mostly downhill after that, but she did get to spend three glorious years married to Aaron Joseph Purmort (aka Spider-Man). Her work has appeared on TIME, Cosmopolitan.com, Elle.com, the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Slate, and in the Star Tribune. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her son, Ralph. They really like it there.