Jenna Clarke is unflinching in her conviction that some people really are better off dead--even if that belief has nearly ruined her life.

Recently released from prison for her role in her high school boyfriend's suicide, Jenna returns to the Maine mill town she grew up in, living and working at her grandparents' gas station as she struggles to navigate life as the town villain.

Then Jenna meets Zep: the fetus she names after a bottle of cleaning fluid beside the toilet where she learns she's pregnant. Suddenly tasked with shepherding a hypothetical life either into or out of existence, Jenna must confront many of the same existential questions that drove her boyfriend to the edge of the ice hole he died in, and drove Jenna to push him over it.

IDK is Jenna's whip-smart and unwittingly vulnerable stream-of-consciousness attempt to connect with her not-yet baby. As the months pass and her options dwindle, the question becomes whether Jenna's myriad delusions about death, life, and the future will yield to clarity about the only fate possible for Zep, and for herself.