`` Seating Arrangements '' is about love and family on a Nantucket-like island . In `` Calling Invisible Women '' a former journalist becomes empowered again . And in the final story of this collection, " The Last Thing I Remember Before Drowning '', an old man recalls his life as a young boy growing up with his mother who was killed by her Cathi Hanauer 's `` Gone '' First there 's former-girlfriend-turned-stalker Saskia . is beautiful , complicated and often funny .
`` Seating Arrangements '' is about love and family on a Nantucket-like island . In `` Calling Invisible Women '' a former journalist becomes empowered again . And in the final story of this collection, " The Last Thing I Remember Before Drowning '', an old man recalls his life as a young boy growing up with his mother who was killed by her Cathi Hanauer 's `` Gone '' is beautiful , complicated and often funny .