Book summary

Carrie Bell has led a remarkably stable existence in her Wisconsin home town: life is good and, perhaps more important, life doesn't change. Then her longtime fiancé is involved in an accident that leaves him paralyzed, and not only Carrie's life but her way of thinking about it changes drastically, and she knows that what she needs is to escape the future that threatens to trap her forever. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Media reviews

"[T]here's not a false note in the story's tentative resolution, which thwarts our initial expectations in order to satisfy more complex demands. Lucid prose limns complicated people....Very find fiction indeed."