Leigh Adelman's comfortable, busy suburban life is filled with threebeautiful children and her devoted husband, Simon. Leigh rarely has time tothink about her difficult past, and her first love, Fowler, with whom she hadan electric affair--and conceived her eldest child. But one day, Fowler, theman who abandoned her and her baby, the man she has never stopped loving, isback in her life. Leigh agrees to meet him for lunch, and as soon as she seeshim, she knows he is dying. Leigh must make a hard choice--to put Fowler behindher, or to help him with his last days, and introduce him to their child.Honest, moving, and utterly authentic, this brilliant first novel is abouttesting the boundaries of love, and living with the often messy consequences.Performed by Mary Beth Hurt.