Written in Quindlen’s emotionally resonant voice and with her deep and generous understanding of the desires and feelings of ordinary people, this beautiful novel is about how loss and mistakes can lead to finding, including the ways that, through adversity, people can grow, and come to a stronger understanding of themselves and empathy for others. As the New York Times said about Quindlen’s fiction, “Where so much is about what vanishes, there is also a deep beating heart of what also stays.”