Beautiful, heart-wrenching, funny. I will keep this book close to me until the day I need it – and pass it on to my son for the day he needs it.

Hallie Bateman is an illustrator and writer based in Los Angeles, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Lenny, BuzzFeed, The Awl, and elsewhere. Her creative journal, Brave New Work, was published by MOMA in 2017.

Suzy Hopkins is a former newspaper reporter who has been publishing a quarterly magazine for boomers and seniors in California's Central Sierra since 2008. She is also Hallie's mother.

A mother's advice to her daughter – a guide for daily life, both practical and sublime – with full-page color illustrations.