Bitter as it is to admit, many women whose children leave the family home lose their footing. Where do they put themselves now? They don’t need to cook breakfasts, gather kids for school, wash and mend torn jeans, smear green stuff on broken knees, check homework, or attend class meetings anymore. So what then?
“Man’s fate is his character,” the philosopher Heraclitus stated many years ago. And Anna Arkadyevna, the main character of the novel—a woman who relied on herself her whole life—decided to begin a new life. But it turned out not to be as simple as she thought…