If you could break bread one last time with someone you lost, who would it be? Where would you go? What would you say? Kirk Douglas would find out if his father approved of his career. Sara Moulton would have a wine-filled, rollicking lunch with her dear friend Julia Child. Memoirist Erica Heller, who would dine with her father, Joseph Heller, collects imagined stories, sketches, and conversations by forty-eight authors, artists, musicians, and comedians that reveal how the passage of time, regret, gratitude, and love affect us all.