Theodora Bishop's novella tells the story of twenty-eight-year old Eva, in grief from the death of her childhood best friend and lover Sebastian. After Eva agrees to be her eccentric mother's maid of honor, she finds herself swept up in events leading to her mother's second marriage-including a mother-daughter adventure at a New Jersey spa. Startling revelations spur Eva to come to terms with not only her grief but a secret that threatens, once discovered, to overwhelm her."The light humor of the piece centers on the narrator and her self-deprecating and ironic tone and vision of herself, as she deals with zany family members and surrounding friends in advance of a ridiculous wedding that her mother is planning for herself."-Clay Reynolds