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In the novel, the author talks about marriage much more than all marriage manuals: about marital expectations, about disappointments, about children and about spouses falling in love again after many years of marriage. The novel is the story of Maggie Moran, a middle-aged woman who thinks that her mission is to connect and unite people and thus help them realize their love dreams. The main character, a middle-aged housewife and caregiver in a nursing home, Maggie Moran is a typical example of the above statement: satisfied in both roles, she begins to lose ground when she realizes that her children are grown and that they no longer need her, at least not in her classic roles. Ira, her husband, who has taken over the family business of making picture frames and tapestries, believes that he has wasted his life because he did not study medicine – he occasionally feels claustrophobic as the breadwinner of his own family, as well as his father and two unmarried sisters, and only in rare moments does he manage to admit to himself that he was never deprived of choices and that he made his choices independently and consciously, solely out of love for his family. This is also a book about loss: Maggie's friend Serena lost her husband, and his funeral is the immediate cause of the book; Maggie's son Jesse lost the opportunity to be a husband to his wife Fiona and their daughter Leroy, and Maggie's daughter Daisy, although somewhat on the margins of the events of this book, loses her own childhood in the family home and is sent to college.