Just when we think life is exactly where we want it... that perfect life throws us a curveball. The unwelcome construction of a gigantic house in Dannie's neighborhood changes her life in ways she never could have imagined. A poignant and wrenching portrait of a marriage and its ending. "[Lawson] is particularly agile in delivering highly charged conversational exhanges... [She] capably navigates the often tricky and tumultuous emotional shoals of unstable relationships."—Booklist