"At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and neighbor, she glows with feminine serenity. But when her husband spontaneously decides they should cast off Gramercy Park for the Marigold Village retirement community as a "preemptive strike against his decrepitude," Pippa finds her beatific persona unraveling in alarming ways"--Cover, p. 2