If you’re looking for a novel that is amazingly well written, and heartbreaking, this is it. Mattie finds out her husband Jake is leaving her for his mistress. At the same time, she learns she has Lou Gehrig’s Disease. This is the story of her and her family’s struggle to right “wrongs,” and deal with a horrible disease that affects not just her, but everyone around her. Joy Fielding makes you feel for these characters, makes you cry along with them. Definitely something you need to be in the mood to read, but nonetheless eloquent and well done especially coping with such a rough topic.