A story of economic breakdown and romantic recovery from the author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman. Tom and Annies kids have grown up, the mortgage is do-able, and theyre about to get a gorgeous new, state-of-the-art French stove. Life is good- or so it seems. Beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling, eaten away by years of resentment, loneliness, and the fall out from the estrangement of their daughter, and theyve settled into simply being two strangers living under the same roof. Until the economy falls apart. Suddenly the dull but oddly comfortable predictability of their lives is upended by financial calamity-Tom loses his job, their son returns home, and Toms mother moves in with them.
