Book description
Top oncologist (middle-aged, married) meets writer (middle-aged, married) who has cancer. They love. She dies. And in between the first post-op exchange and the sweet, sad close of this very professional version of the pop Love Story formula, Dr. Jason Darvey and Sara McFarland will trade intuitions (she begins a New Yorker-type profile of an oncologist) and examine their respective marriages.
Sara’s husband Harry is kind and responsible, a good father to their two grown children. He’s O.K. to live with — but not to die with. Darvey’s wife Beth, pretty and vivacious, does not share his interests and lacks that "something that touches you sharply where you feel." So, as Sara’s illness progresses, so does the inexplicable, liberating attraction between Sara and Jason.
