Synopsis: Lincoln is twenty-eight years old and holds a couple of master’s degrees. He didn’t know what else to do with his life, so he continued his education. Now, living…
Synopsis: They met during the first class on their first day of law school: Ginger, Laney, Betts, and Mia. It was 1979 and they were discussing Bradwell v. Illinois in…
Synopsis: Former First Lady Nancy Reagan coined the term “the long goodbye” in relationship to Alzheimer’s disease, referring to the long, arduous, and frequently slow progression of the disease that…
Synopsis: Lily Berry is having a rough time. Her boyfriend, Martin, broke up with her and, as the story begins, she is stalking him, driving by his house repeatedly in…
Synopsis: Henry Bartolozzi was the love of Heidi’s life and her soul mate. They fell in love quickly while culinary students, married, and doted on each other and their son,…
Synopsis: Shep Knacker wants to “get away from it all.” It is early 2005, and he has been planning “The Afterlife,” as he calls it, for years, vacationing annually with…
Synopsis: Lilac Hill is the name of the Ottawa farm where Iain Reid grew up. His parents have lived there nearly thirty years now, with their five ducks, sheep, two…
Synopsis: Prudence Burns is dedicated to living the most natural, ecologically responsible life she can, even though she resides in Brooklyn. That includes recycling, growing and eating organic produce, not…
Synopsis: Jeannie Thompson has managed to keep her boyfriend of more than two years, Aidan, from meeting her wacky family. And she wants to keep it that way. After all,…
Synopsis: Tim O’Donnell grew up in a devoted Roman Catholic home, and was educated in parochial schools. Reading his descriptions about his upbringing is reminiscent of George Carlin’s classic album,…
Synopsis: This particular Saturday has gotten off to a really bad start. The bank branch office that Paul manages has been held up by a crook who presented a note…
Synopsis: What if . . . ? What if you had chosen differently? What if you had made different decisions? What would your life be like today? What kind of…
Dani Shapiro arrived at the point in her life that many people reach, especially as they approach the age at which you realize that you have probably lived at least…
Synopsis: Ann Biddle is seventy-three years old, widowed, and the mother of one surviving child, Tom. She is also experiencing the early effects of Alzheimer’s or dementia: She has trouble…
Synopsis: It is a cold winter night in Minneapolis and a storm has knocked out power to homes there. So Irene, Gil, and their three children, Florian, Riel, and Stoney,…
Synopsis: Suze Wright is overwhelmed. Sure, it’s the 1990’s and, as a feminist, she bought the whole “I can bring home the bacon and fry it up in the pan”…
Synopsis: Lake Warren is forty-four years old and in the midst of a divorce initiated by her husband, Jack, who has moved out of their Upper West Side apartment. Working…
Synopsis: At a very young age, author Linda Gray Sexton became her mother’s protector and guardian, entering into a relationship she would later describe as both codependent and symbiotic. The…
Synopsis: Major Ernest Pettigrew (Ret.) is a proper English gentleman. He lives in the village of Edgecombe St. Mary in a cottage called Rose Lodge. It has been six years…
Synopsis: In 1979, five toddlers ranging in age from two to four years, were abandoned aboard a luxury yacht named “For Tuna” on the coast of Puerto Rico. The vessel…