When Emma Gibb was thirteen, there was no one more fascinating to her than her folk-healing, superstitious. Ukrainian baba. Fifteen years later, Emma tells her baba she is pregnant, and those superstitions she used to find so fascinating, come back to haunt her. On top of that, she has to deal with the vile principal at her school whose main goal seems to be to make Emma's life miserable, wacky pregnancy hormones and a overly critical mother Throw in a large, Ukrainian family and life gets unbearably stressful. What follows is a funny, touching and, in the end, heartbreaking story about the importance of family, even when they're driving us crazy