The Matter of Grace Author:Jessica Barksdale Inclan Every summer, Felice, Helen, Stella, and Grace meet at Oakland View Swim and Tennis Club. As their children learn to swim, the four friends sit by the edge of the pool talking, laughing, sharing in each other's lives. After 7 years, it seems nothing will ever change among them. Until this summer... — Grace has cancer. It wasn't supposed to re... more »turn, but it has. And now, at the brink of crisis, as the women help Grace through her illness, they are forced to examine their own lives and wonder...why Felice no longer has anything in common with her husband, who was once her best friend...why Helen, who is so afraid of being ordinary, starts an affair with a man half her age...why Stella, who has everything, is willing to take the biggest risk of all. And why Grace, who says she is ill, is still working out at the gym and sitting by the pool as if nothing is the matter.« less