A memoir in which the author describes her experiences caring for her father in the final months of his battle with Alzheimer's disease, and shares the insights she gained into his, and her own, life.
For Eva, the divorced and happily remarried mother of three children, and her adolescent middle child, Daisy, the death of Eva's second husband John in a car accident turns their lives upside down.
Author Sue Miller selects twenty works of American short fiction to represent the best of the genre from the year 2001; also includes contributors' notes, a list of one hundred additional stories, and editorial addresses for American and Canadian magazines.