Library JournalCelia Cassill is still in mourning for her young husband, who died five years earlier after a grueling illness. Fortunately, he left enough money for her to buy a small apartment building in Brooklyn. But even though she is doing all right financially, Celia is isolated and withdrawn. Now she finds herself pulled into the problems of her tenants. One glamorous middle-aged woman, whose husband recently left her for another woman, has begun a disturbing (and noisy) affair with an unsavory new boyfriend. A young couple down the hall has marital problems. And an old retired ferryboat captain, the most down-to-earth tenant in the building, has suddenly gone missing, and his daughter angrily blames Celia. The affairs of these neighbors draw Celia back into an emotional involvement with life, in all its messiness.
