: A man dealing with his own grief who unknowingly falls for the girl living with his late girlfriend's heart.

: A survivor struggling with the physical and mental aftermath of a car accident and a heart transplant.

Compared to Elena Knows or My Year of Rest and Relaxation , is less cynical and more hopeful, though it walks the same tightrope of mundane despair. It is the literary love child of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and the formatting of Letters to a Young Poet —only the poet is dead, and the writer is trying to revive her.