In two novellas and four shorter tales of love and healing gone awry, we meet caregivers and lovers, muses and skydivers, mothers and minors - all headed toward 'ninety mile-an-hour psychic crashes euphemistically referred to as epiphanies.' As William Gass says, 'The music of Mary Caponegro's stories is to the mouth what wine is.' And through exuberant lyricism, remarkable characterization, and settings as elaborately detailed as any in Hollywood, these dramas of failure, resilience, and transformation linger long after the wine is gone.