Bimmie Says

A teenage wife keeps a diary chronicling domestic life with her young husband, an obsessive amateur scientist who conducts experiments in their basement on their cat and dog and dreams of fame. Entries record household tensions, pregnancy and birth, the husband's attempts at hypnotism and pills intended to alter animals and, later, the infant, and the wife's growing discomfort as she balances school, family, and household duties. The tone alternates between wry and anxious as small incidents—pets' behavior, neighbors, and medical visits—foreground ethical and emotional conflicts about experimentation, parental roles, and the couple's unequal priorities.