To be a woman-to be loved, loathed, sheltered, shunned, worshiped, feared, sexualized, objectified, gratified, brutalized, glorified, silenced, empowered... With a startling lyrical clarity, Amber Decker helps us navigate the road that twists endlessly through the forest of womanhood, illuminating the mystery and the duality of growing up female and what it means to form relationships as a woman, to love and be loved, to fantasize, to have the heart shattered and to rise up from the ashes once more like the phoenix, stronger than before and without so much as a hair out of place, all while struggling to find a place in this world and, quite possibly, in the next.