"The celebration of the thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of Russell Calloway's best friend, Washington Lee-'the lease likely monogamist of his acquaintance somehow having become over the years a model husband and father'-at the Odeon in the spring of 2020 sparks an at once funny and moving autumnal reckoning with mortality for Russell and his wife, Corinne, as the specter of the COVID-19 virus spreads. In this moment of unprecedented upheaval-frantic and fraught real-time response, piercing personal and political impact-the Calloways find themselves and their marriage tested in ways they could never have expected as fatal consequences inexorably ensue." -- Front jacket flap.