This is not the way it’s supposed to go. Her son’s partner is a man. Her daughter abandons God. Her widowed friend takes a lover way too soon. Her husband accepts it all with grace. These are some of the challenges facing Roslyn Hansen Meyers, who comes from good people and is dutybound to carry out the promise of her Southern roots. In this cycle of stories, unfolding over the last half century into the present, Roslyn’s nearest and dearest come to terms, each in their own way, with the tragedies, triumphs, and painful surprises family loyalty demands, while Roslyn struggles to keep up in a world where even sunshine is unsafe.