Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen

A lovely story about a photographer whose career has plateaued. Money is very scarce as she struggles to support her elderly parents and help out her adult son. She rents out her expensive New York City apartment and retreats to a run down house in a small rural community. As new experiences fuel some creative camera work, an unexpected relationship with a roofer many years younger chips away at a long term loneliness and dispiritedness that had enveloped her life.