In this "story of six characters' second chances to make things right, a successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs; a high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause; a transgender adolescent male ... struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind; a French-Canadian political science professor finds himself left with a choice between his ... separatist cause and his marriage and family; an accomplished engineer is ... unable to impress his more accomplished father; ... The Quebec separatist party's Minister of Natural Resources ... finds herself caught between her ... lover and an unexpected ... suitor"--Publisher's website.
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