From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes. In these riveting stories, a teenage girl tries to emulate her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on them. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father. A famous actor has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And, a shy twenty-one-year-old finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams.