This book will be memorable due to it's very unusual plot line. As a reader you are grabbed right away as our protagonist is headed to a weekend retreat. Her invitation to the retreat is a result of her being selected to receive, through the years, random chapters of "The Guidebook". The guidebook is sometimes pithy, sometimes practical, often enigmatic. Retreat attendees are then told the MAY be chosen to learn "The Truth".

Through the first 75% of this book I was tempted to abandon it. I certainly set it aside. But every time I put it down I couldn't stop thinking about it, and wondering what was this "truth" and "guidebook" about? Ultimately Moriarty's well-written characters and carefully developed plot arc came through. I love a book that ties things together, but not "too" tidily. In fact, as I finished I immediately found Moriarty's author page to see if she has published anything else. Certainly glad I finished it.

As with "Harry's Trees", this book has a quality of seeming somewhat magical and mysterious, but yet there is nothing that happens that would qualify it for a fantasy genre.