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These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the "American Dream". Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian who is compassionate, abrasive, and meditative, while her subjects provide their own narrative. More than anything, the poems are a response to her work, which is all we have that comes directly from her. It is a deliberate challenge to the “mystery nanny” she is reduced to in much of the constructed narrative of her life.

I ended up at a bus station in the middle of the night, and it would have been horrible if the only other person there, a hunk of a guy named Frank, hadn’t kept me company. You know how you sometimes tell complete strangers things when you’re travelling? Well, I guess I went a bit overboard and when Frank found out that I’d never been sexually satisfied, he decided it was high time for somebody to take care of that. Who would have thought he’d try to give me my first orgasm right there in public with rough sex?