Audio Book Description:
A self anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinsky has endured the iscolationof her middle life by doting on her dog,Frank, and immersing her self in hercarrer as a visiting nurse, Myra considers herself reasonably content, telling herself,it`s enough,work and Frank. And it has been enough-until ChipReardon the too-good-to-be-truegolden boy she adored in high school, is assigned to be her new patient. choosingto forgo invasive treatment for anincurable illness, Chip has returned from Manhatten to the New England home of his childhood to spend what time he has left. Now, Myra and Chip findthemselfs engaged in a poignant redefinition of roles, and a complicateddance of memory, ambivalence and longing