Courtney: Friends and Strangers, primarily, it's about the relationship between a new mom who's just had her first baby and just left New York City and moved Upstate. She's sort of ambivalent about the move. She doesn't have any friends where she's living, feels kind of isolated. She ends up hiring a college senior to babysit her child. The two of them develop a friendship. It's kind of a complicated friendship, of course, because one of them is the other's employer. Their lives become very enmeshed in a lot of different ways. In a larger sense, the book is very much about motherhood and women at different stage of transition in life. There are years of our lives where we don't have huge, life-altering transitional moments. Then there are years of our lives when we have our first baby or we're graduating college and starting out in the world. Each of these women is really at a crossroads. Probably, the friendship they develop and the intensity of it would never have occurred at any other point in their lives, but it does. It also kind of takes a look at what does it mean to have a safety net? What does it mean in this particular climate in which we live with the gig economy, with massive classes divides in this country, what does it mean to be supported in a lot of different ways?