Daphne Fuller, a 53 year old teacher, and her husband Jonathan are visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York City when he notices an elderly man following them. Jonathan is not surprised because older men often find Daphne attractive. It turns out that the man is Eddie Triplett who was briefly married to her mother and was a stepfather to Daphne and her sister when they were in elementary school. Something happened back then which led her mother to divorce Eddie and Daphne has not seen him for four decades. Because the two of them had been quite close their reconnection makes both of them very happy and they make arrangements to keep in touch. The book slips back and forth between the present and the incident that changed the direction of their lives. The characters are all ordinary, decent and mostly likeable. I found the adult relationship between Daphne and Eddie intense to the point of being creepy but I needed a palate cleanser after reading
Switzy, a novel about assisted suicide, and
Whistler filled that need.
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