A reimagining of the traditional coming-of-age story, set in the writer-protagonist’s midlife. Instead of journeying to find one’s place in the world, the writer-protagonist is at an age where she needs to find a way to live at the intersection of love and grief, where the exhilaration of a new relationship—the kind of love she has wanted all her life—can coexist with burying friends who’ve died, caring for ailing parents, and living through a global pandemic, while reconciling the loss of...