Mary Beth: It's about two families who end up living next door to one another in a suburb of New York City in the seventies. The book spans about forty years. It begins in the seventies. It ends in 2018. They end up living as neighbors. The dads in both houses are cops. They're sort of bonded by what the dads do for a living. The kids become kind of close, but then this tragic event happens that divides the families, they think, forever. Of course, they are not divided forever. That's not a plot spoiler. You can sort of feel it coming in the prose. It's about how the things that happen to us as kids, the traumas of childhoods, how we end up carrying them into adulthood in strange ways even when we think we're long past those things. There's this situation in the story. I think the story is really about love and how it changes and gets tested and morphs over time, who you have to protect within a love relationship, yourself, the person that you're committed to. It's not just romantic love. It's between siblings, parent and children, and all of the above. Basically, it's what we all go through in a messy life and whether it's worth it or not.