Sue Miller

A veterinarian treats a dog whose owner turns out to be an old college friend of hers, prompting her to re-evaluate her life in the light of her past.

Nina Eberlin comes home to visit her now-divorced parents and while looking through a collection of pictures taken by her father and herself, she reflects on how the pictures illustrate the nature of families. She begins to tell the story of how her parents discovered their son Randall was autistic and how each reacted to that. Her mother had three more kids, all daughters, "the perfect children."