Some might say that sheas an enigma: this sophisticated forty-year-old grandmother, a widow of twenty years, has been celibate for the duration. After Nyja raised her daughter in an appropriate manner, she is ready to resume an active sex life. She finds the man of her dreams and marries him, but all chaos breaks out and Nyja finds herself responsible for raising her grandson, just when all she really wants in life is the one thing she has denied herself for so longa]a man. But can she turn her back on her daughter now, just when she needs her the most? Nyja finds that she is not the only grandmother living this dilemma of grandmothers raising another generation; she and other grandmothers in this story learn that their will is strong, but what is even stronger is a grandmotheras heart.