*Award-winning, Oprah Book Club author Berg spins touching short stories of vividly drawn women in transition. In the first story of 14 in this collection, Mavis locks herself in the bathroom for a week, in order to have time to think and take stock of her life. Berg's fiction is poetic, compassionate, and exquisitely detailed. "Lyrical... multifaceted... artistic... anything but ordinary."—The Detroit Free Press