Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in
San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now, a pai
r of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into t
he arms of her oldest friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gay gardener happily e
nsconced with his much-younger husband. Mary Ann finds temporary refuge in the c
ouple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of fifty-seven, she licks
her wounds and takes stock of her mistakes.
