Iona Iverson is a magazine therapist who knows all the rules a person must follow while taking the train. One day a fellow commuter nearly dies choking on a grape and suddenly those rules change.  The characters in this story span all kinds of archetypes: from the fierce and fashionable elder lesbian, a sweet but anxious Indian nurse in a cancer clinic, a teen girl trying to recover from social exile and learning to step into her power, a woman in the perfect relationship with an internet stalker, and a washed up stock trader who is trying his best.

This is a truly lovely story about chosen family, second chances, and finding new friends in unlikely places. I loved how well realized the characters were and how they crossed the divides of generations and cultures and backgrounds. A feel good story that has big cozy vibes.

Read if you: love an ensemble cast who grow together through an unlikely sequence of events, characters who are more than what they seem at first glance, a hot cup of tea on a cold rainy afternoon.