After she forgets some lines in a theatrical performance, Lulu Blake travels to Snow Road Station, the snowy Canadian town where she grew up, to attend her nephew’s wedding. There she meets with her family, rekindles old relationships, forges new ones and, also, helps out harvesting maple syrup.

The most avant-garde of avant-garde artists, named X, dies. X’s wife investigates her mysterious past and writes her biography and that’s the book you’re reading.

A beauty-obsessed woman named Mirabelle travels to California to deal with the consequences of her mother’s death. Mirabelle falls down the rabbit hole along the way. Hijinks ensue.