Can Strangers from Different Generations Truly Become Friends?
When Helena takes a tumble that requires hospitalization, she thinks her life as an independent woman is over. In her youth, she'd been an author, speaker, activist, but now, she's scared and alone, abandoned by her sons, certain the world has forgotten her. Faced with moving into a retirement community, Helena struggles to adjust her expectations, even as Julie, the activities director, wrangles her into volunteering as a patient advocate for Zak, a college freshman, also alone and struggling in this intergenerational novel of the friendship that blossoms between two people on opposite ends of life's journey.