Leavitt imagines two women, Isabelle and Alice, who live in the same neighborhood and decide to run away from their husbands on the same foggy night, then collide. Alice dies in the accident, while Isabelle, although not legally at fault, is overcome with guilt.
Wait, it gets better.
Sam, Alice's little boy, survives the crash with minor injuries, but he sees Isabelle at the scene and becomes convinced she is an angel capable of bringing back his mother. Sam later spots Isabelle in the neighborhood, follows her and soon comes to love her. Charlie, his father, cannot understand why Alice wanted to leave him He tries to discourage Sam's relationship with the woman who, accidentally or not, killed his mother. Then he falls in love with Isabelle, too.
As for Isabelle, she begins to view Sam as the child she has never been able to have and Charlie as the man her husband turned out not to be.
The novel may not end the way you want it to — it certainly doesn't end the way the characters want it to — yet it ends in a way that makes fiction seem like truth.
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