In an attempt to rescue her husband, Salo Oppenheimer, from a tragedy that had followed him into adulthood, Johanna pursued IVF in its early days to give her husband a family. But now Salo is pursuing his own passions, and their antagonistic triplets are going off to college and severing themselves from the family Joanna's built her life around. With surprising wit and stark pathos, The Latecomer tells of Johanna's last desperate, unexpected effort at familial closeness—via a new baby