<p><b>''A writer with a profound comprehension of emotional destruction, loss and redemption'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>A retired widow</b><b>in rural Connecticut </b>wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn''t seen in forty-nine years. <br><br><b>A man arrives at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hotel</b> to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby.<br><br><b>A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai</b> receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past. <br><br>These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface over the course of one fateful day...</p>