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At a literary festival, a poet named Linda Fallon meets, for the first time in years, fellow poet Thomas Janes, whose fame has grown during a decade of seclusion. This is no chance meeting, however, since Thomas knew where Linda was scheduled to appear and chose that moment to reestablish contact with the woman he passionately pursued years earlier, in an affair that was disastrous for them both. As the story moves backward from Linda at age 52 to age 26, and then age 17, it examines the extraordinary resonance a single choice, even a single word, can have over the course of a lifetime.
