Alice Thrift, an intelligent surgical intern who is sorely lacking in social skills, gets a little help from her friends when she is drawn into a relationship with Ray Russo, a loud-mouthed fairground food vendor.
Two newly-single sisters, one a divorce?e, the other a widow, become roommates with a handsome, gay cupcake-baker as they try to return to the dating world of lower Manhattan.
Frederica Hatch finds her comfortable world transformed by Laura Lee French, a new college dorm mother and former Rockette who had once been married to Frederica's father.
Natalie Marx, obsessed with The Inn at Lake Devine in Vermont ever since learning that Jews are not welcome at the family-owned resort, changes the course of her life when she manages to finagle an invitation to join a friend there on vacation.
Natalie Marx, obsessed with The Inn at Lake Devine in Vermont ever since learning that Jews are not welcome at the family-owned resort, changes the course of her life when she manages to finagle an invitation to join a friend there on vacation.