A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs. In 1953, the good
doctor gave her a radioactive cocktail without her consent, and Marylou
has been plotting her revenge ever since. When she discovers his
whereabouts in Florida, she hightails it to Tallahassee, moves in down
the block from where he resides with his daughter, Caroline, and begins
the tricky work of insinuating herself into his life. But she has no
idea what a nest of yellow jackets she's stumbled into. Spriggs is
senile, his daughter's on the verge of collapse, and his grandchildren
are a mess of oddballs, leaving Marylou wondering whether she's really
meant to ruin their lives ... or fix them.