When Georgie's big break comes, it's at the worst possible time--right before Christmas, when she's supposed to go to Nebraska with her family. Her husband, Neal, decides to take the kids and go without her, sending Georgie into a tailspin; is he leaving her? Has she broken her marriage? When she calls his parents' house on an ancient rotary phone she's had since childhood, she finds herself talking to him during the week he proposed twenty years ago. Is this a chance to fix everything, or will she break it worse? 
 Rowell's ability to write real, believable, relateable characters is just as apparent here as it was in Eleanor and Park and Fangirl. The quirkiness is toned down a bit, which I found appropriate since this book is about adults and not teenagers. But once again, anyone who's ever doubted their relationship and their future will be able to identify with Georgie and Neal. Rowell's characters aren't larger than life; they're pretty much exactly life-sized, and sometimes you need that in a story. (At least, I do. Apparently lots of other people found the whole thing "boring.")