"Vita Woods is on the brink. She produces a popular podcast and lives with her successful doctor boyfriend Max, with whom the sex is great and the future promising. Her brilliant if unreliable sister Gracie is her best friend and sparring partner. And her steadfast goldfish, Whitney Houston, brightens even her dimmest days. But as much as things are going right, the days are dark. Vita is not leaving the house. In fact, she can barely make it out of bed. Instead, she spends long, blurred hours falling in and out of The Pit, dead to the world and to herself. For months, Vita has been sick with an illness that no doctor, not even Max, can diagnose. ... Then, when an unexpected mix-up pushes her into the path of her upstairs neighbors, Vita finds friendship--and perhaps more--in the apartment above"--