内容简介：
Grace, a 25 year old woman who struggles to make sense of a series of losses in her life, tells the story. Grace loves a man named Tom, who is raising his five year old son Matty. When he is fatally injured in an accident, Grace and Tom's brother Bart struggle to care for the child. As Grace becomes more attached and Matty becomes the center of her life, the relationship between Grace and Bart becomes more complicated. When Tom dies, Grace grieves the loss of the only person she had ever imagined spending her life with, and she also loses the only tie to Matty that she ever had. Bart's involvement is questionable when his mother, who had not had any contact with Matty since he was an infant, reclaims Matty. The story concludes with Grace healing and finally accepting the chain of events that brought Matty into her life and then his departure. It is a story of love and loss, and relationshipsCthe consuming love that one has for a child, and romantic love that one feels lucky to find just once in a lifetime.