Carmen has been with her husband Jobe for 21 years. When he took his last breath he was out on the sun porch and Carmen was in the kitchen daydreaming about all of things she could be doing if she weren't waiting for the cancer to finally kill him. Carmen was filled with happiness and relief but she had to temper those feeling for the sake of her three children and Olive, her mother-in-law. It wasn't easy to do for Carmen. Jobe was a nice guy. They met in England when she spilled some hot tea on him. They talked for awhile and he invited her back there for lunch the next day. Carmen had no intentions of doing that - until her purse was stolen and she had no money and no passport. Jobe 'saved' her. And he kept saving her. She wanted to leave him since before she married him. And now he has left her and she won't have to sneak around so much to meet her married lover, Danny. This novel is the story of Carmen's release from her matrimonial bonds - but sometimes things aren't as great as you thought they might be. She still has her three children to deal with (including a 20-year-old son with Down's Syndrome). So it isn't going to be easy. And then it got almost impossible - Carmen is diagnosed with breast cancer. Bauer did a great job with her characters and I liked the way the story of Carmen and Jobe was presented in bits and pieces.
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