This the concusion to the GroVont trilogy, which began with Skipped Parts and continued with Sorrow Floats. In this book, Sam Callahan is abandoned by his wife, Wanda, who has run off with the pool boy. Sam`s daughter tells him: Heartbreak to you is like garlic to a cook, gives him some leads to the possible identity of his father, and urges him to get on with his life. Sam proceeds to do so.