Holly, nearing her 50th birthday, is part of the "sandwich generation". Her daughter is about to go off to college, leaving her with an empty nest, while her widowed mother has developed some serious health problems. Meanwhile, her husband's idiosyncrasies seem more annoying than usual, but maybe that's just because of her menopausal hormones. Is it any wonder she finds herself unable to complete the manuscript her editor keeps calling her to finalize?

Like her young adult works, Sones' debut adult title is a novel-in-poems. Unlike some examples of this particular genre, her poems are actual poems, not just prose with a lot of unnecessary line breaks. The writing is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreaking as Holly deals with issues both large and small. One particularly clever (and giggle-inducing) poem, titled "Hmmmlet", reworks the famous soliloquy into a meditation on the possible health risks of hormone replacement therapy. I'm not sure the subplot about Holly's writer's block was really necessary; I found those poems pulling me out of the rest of the story. Otherwise, this is a refreshingly different addition to the "chick lit" genre, in which the "chick" has been through the dating scene, marriage, and child-raising, and - along with her friends, and the readers who will easily recognize themselves in her - has to figure out what comes next.