The performance
(Book)

"Three women at turning points in their lives go to the theater to see a play while wildfires rage in the nearby hills. Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at the theater, and frantically worried for her girlfriend whose parents live in the fire zone. While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together. By the time the curtain falls, they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage." --book jacket