Moving drama with many humorous touches; 2-character play with mature women roles (one is 90 years old, the other is somewhere between 32-54) who, as strangers, reveal their secrets to each other while the elder woman is waiting to die; the relationship between the two women reminded me of the central characters in "Fried Green Tomatoes" or a gender reversal of Tuesdays with Morrie.

Jessie Long, a cancer survivor who has passed the crucial five-year all-clear mark. Still unsettled and unattached at 32 with habit of looking for love in the wrong places, Jessie moves to her family's empty cottage on Cape Cod where she hopes to find some equilibrium while indulging in her side business—making jewelry (from human hair???).

In the first of a series of increasingly destructive decisions, Jessie hides her medical history and volunteers to be a hospice worker. She is assigned to Luke Ryder, a 45-year-old commercial fisherman in the last stages of pancreatic cancer. Jessie falls in love before she ever meets with Luke, on the basis of a few candid photos, and as her need for love grows stronger and clouds her judgments, Luke inches ever closer to death.

After Luke dies of a painkiller overdose, Jessie is hauled into court to face charges of assisting in his suicide. LeClaire might have brought some insight and complexity to her narrative during the trial, but instead it putters along. Jessie's epilogue epiphany, similarly, fails to convince.

Another Book Club selection with mixed reviews.