Midnight Supper at the Rise and Shine

Bad luck and worse choices--that's Irene. She's been a widow half her life and now splits her time between waitressing at the Rise and Shine café and singing in an oldies cover band. And she's having an affair with a married man--something that even her eclectic, super liberal family can't condone.

She'd be the first one to admit she has faults, but she's not a bigot. The genetic pool in her nuclear family spans the globe. And it's not that she's prejudiced against people with disabiliti…