Common Goood Books is pleased to welcome Alexa Stevenson, author of Half-baked: The Story of My Nerves, My Newborn, and How We Both Learned to Breathe on Wednesday, August 11 at 7:30. She will be joined by Patricia Hampl. Alexa Stevenson had spent most of her life preparing for the wrong disasters. When her daughter is born 15 weeks early, she is plunged into the strange half-light of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, where she learns the Zen of medical uncertainty and makes the surprising discovery that a worst-case scenario may just be the best thing that's ever happened to her. From the indignities of infertility treatments to managing bedrest and parenting a preemie, Alexa recounts her rocky road to motherhood with a uniquely sharp, funny, yet poignant voice.