Crazy Marty does not know the woman's name. The woman she stalks five days a week, that is.

She just knows that the woman is her only daughter. And that she stops in at Gerry's Grocery & Deli every weekday at ten. Marty watches her in secret, not daring to approach.

Maybe someday.

One day, her daughter disappears. Suddenly, Marty's "someday" might become "never."

Wolfe's heart-wrenching slice of life portrays, with startling clarity, a mother's failures and complicated tenderness. It is a literary treat not to be missed.