Not my favourite Sue Miller, but still great writing, and able to see into a human heart. Lily is in her 70s and has Parkinsons. She's a famous memoirist who has a view on the Black civil rights movement in America, and is currently living with her son, Alan and his wife. Visiting is Linnet, a journalist, writing a piece on Lily. There are a lot of high-brow conversations about what went on in Lily's church when she was first married, and it felt as though Alan's view of her, and the fame of her memoir hinged around that, but it just wasn't controversial enough to drive the present-day story for me. 3.5 stars.