The everyday challenges of parenting, stepparenting, and familial love and loyalty take on great weight as the richly drawn characters of each storyfathers, mothers, children, loversface them with genuine need, strength, and confusion. Up and down the Eastern Seaboard, from Manhattan's Upper East Side to Maine, Connecticut, and Long Island, these stories showcase the trademark insight and tenderness with which Robinson explores divorce, remarriage, and families yearning to move on.