Rita Jackson is a young woman on the skids, spending her time in
shelters and on the dot-com-drunk streets of late 1990s San
Francisco. She's a young woman haunted by the murder of her mother
when she was thirteen, and a young bride haunted by the
disappearance of her husband, Jimmy, who split after a nasty
argument more than a year earlier. Together Jimmy and Rita were
slipping into drugs and hard times. Rita is filled with feelings of
guilt and failure, and the hope that she will one day and Jimmy.
She doesn't know that he is still in the city, still in love with
her, waiting tables in an expensive restaurant while trying to get
a foothold in the straight life.
When Rita witnesses the aftermath of a murder, her own life is
endangered. She becomes involved with Gary Shepard, a married
criminal investigator drawn to the dark side of this young woman.
What unfolds is a story of three flawed people struggling with
themselves as much as with their circumstances, as each of them is
pulled more deeply and dangerously into the consequences of their
decisions. When a drunken night leads Jimmy to jeopardize his
second and last chance, it seems unlikely that these sweet, damaged
people will ever come to anything, let alone find and -- miracle of
miracles -- save one another.
But fate, in Addonizio's hands, works in strange and beautiful
geometries. And redemption, she tells us, is never impossible.
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