by Sara Cooper
First published 2026
Breigh is an elder millennial with a viral brand and a strict policy of yes. She says yes to every partnership, every livestream, every unboxing. Her followers love her. Her numbers are good. Then she gets pregnant, and her body starts doing things she cannot explain or control. She is not depressed, she tells herself. She is not hungry. She just sometimes eats boxes of makeup and wakes up on the floor. Meanwhile, Daddy has bought a new house with a Greenguard Gold-certified, twice-imported velvet infant chaise inside it, and Breigh suspects he is sleeping with a younger coworker. The other momfluencers are posting. The algorithm does not pause for morning sickness. Breigh needs a move. She builds a seven-step marketing plan, pitches it to the baby still inside her, and gets what she reads as approval. The content will be the birth itself. Live. Baby will be the unboxing. This is the story of a woman whose grip on reality loosens one sponsored post at a time, and whose hunger, for product and for meaning, keeps growing.
Genres: satire, literary-fiction, contemporary, adult-fiction, psychological-thriller
Vibes: claustrophobic, darkly-comedic, introspective, surreal, thought-provoking, unsettling
Tropes: descent-into-madness, performance-of-self, toxic-ambition, unreliable-narrator
Period: elder-millennial-era, contemporary-present-day
286 pages · Paperback · Roseway Publishing
Content warnings: body-horror, depression, eating-disorder, mental-illness