Dark, nothing but darkness, thick and deep, and it wasnt home, she could sense that, it was somewhere else. Susan Ann was trying to think, trying to remember the last thing she remembered what day was this? (p. 2)

It is September 11, 2001, and eighty-five-year-old Susan Ann Roberts is coming to the end of her life. In and out of consciousness, she is bedridden in a Toronto hospital, confused as to what has brought her to this place. Her daughter, Lorraine, and beloved granddaughter, Meg, are by her side but they seem unable (or unwilling) to take her home.

Susan Ann isnt exactly sure where home is anymore. Lorraine had insisted her mother move to Toronto, worried about her living alone in the big house back east. Ever since, Susan Ann has been trappedstuck in an unfamiliar city in a too-small apartment where things are so cramped that the dresser drawers in her bedroom open only partway.

Susan Ann resolves that she wi