In Haruf's final work he returns to the small town of Holt Colorado, where widower Louis Waters is passing his lonely life. When Addie Moore, a longtime friend of his wife and herself a widow, suggests to him that they spend companionable nights together he is initially surprised. Even as they become closer despite the spying eyes around them, they are surprised when Addie's six-year old grandson comes to live with her for the summer and they become a new and unconventional family. Their story is powerfully told in the unadorned language that make Haruf's books about Holt so resonant with readers