The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn't affect him. It spreads to every inamimate object that he touches, and then if another person touches the object, they are dissolved into it. No one knows that ...

Two mother-daughter duos must contend with their grief and complicated relationships with one another when the person who connects them dies.

A group of young and middle-aged women gather for the birthday party of a friend and talk about their lives and food they cook for their husbands, boyfriends, or themselves.

A woman is haunted by flashbacks of her dead mother and visions of dead people floating.