“Jockie Loomer-Kruger is a gifted and sensitive writer. Her prose is clear and her story beautifully crafted. Her characters are believable and convincingly rendered. Jenny Hoffman, a former florist, is devoted to her husband, Rudy, a retired professor, and Steinbeck scholar. As his dementia deepens in distressing ways, light blooms from Jenny’s heart and brightens an otherwise dim winter of discontent.”