In this poignant exploration of friendship, love and independence, Caroline Kraus revisits a transformative period during her early twenties. Alternating between St. Louis and San Francisco, past and present, we meet Caroline at the precipice of adulthood, struggling to overcome the loss of her mother to cancer. As a consuming new friendship takes hold of her heart, Kraus navigates her first job, a house full of roommates, and her own rapid unraveling. Told with wry humor and insight, the author’s journey offers a portal into universal territories of heart and mind, across the fissures and fault lines of attachment, grief and self-discovery.