Summary

Georgia Ford, the novel’s protagonist, loves to tell the story about how her parents, Dan and Jenny Ford, met in front of Lincoln Center one wintry day when he jumped into her yellow VW bug instead of his co-worker's yellow VW bug. Her father always called it synchronization–the coordination of events working in unison—which is vastly different from the free-agency passiveness of fate.

In Chapter 1, "Sebastopol, California, Six Months Ago," Georgia is scheduled to be married in a week at her family’s vineyard in Sebastopol, California, but today she is driving the nine hours straight from Los Angeles where she works as an attorney, straight home, all while wearing her wedding dress. When she reaches Sebastopol, she heads to a tavern owned by her brothers, Finn and Bobby...