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This book is a collection of short stories by Joan Silber. Dorothy was arrested for participating in a march for women's suffrage, and then devoted herself to charity without hesitation. Antoine, an unscrupulous hedonist, had all his money stolen by his girlfriend and ended up living on the streets of Paris, making a living as a performer. Rudy has always been good at coaxing the rich to donate to their charity projects, until he met Lillian, who inherited a huge inheritance... Five well-written stories, five very different lives. In the story, they are both utterly silly and charming. Everyone interprets the absurdity and reality of life in unexpected ways.

The whole book shows us how close the abyss is to everyone and the joy that intimacy brings. The novel is composed of a series of interconnected stories, forming an all-encompassing circular narrative structure. The author gathers unrelated lives into the same group, giving the work a magical depth to the narrative. The author composed three novellas into a novel. These words can be read independently and are like a gorgeous Turkish carpet, stringing together the lives of the three protagonists and bringing together a group of strangers from different corners of the world into the tragedy of a car accident, spanning the fate of several generations. What seems like trivial daily life actually echoes and is related to each other. The characters are obviously fallible, and the message quietly conveyed between the lines of this book is profound: no matter how lonely we feel, we are never truly alone.