This is a novel about how a “successful woman” learns to become a “real person.” It is about the “shoulds” society has programmed into us, and the “I want” we finally dare to say aloud. “She spent thirty years becoming a perfect answer in everyone else's eyes, then decided to become an answer to a question no one had ever asked.” The flower is hidden inside the fruit, unshowy and quiet, yet full. Like someone finally learning to grow inward, like a stream that has wandered a long way at last finding its riverbed.
