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Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each born on a kibbutz in Israel. They meet years later at a university in California, when Jacob is a successful psychiatrist with a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage. The family moves to a brownstone in Harlem, formerly a convent inhabited by elderly nuns. Outside the house one day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. Unmoored and devastated, Constance and Gabriel quickly come to depend on Marina, and her bond with the little boy intensifies.

“If only men express their feelings rather than just acting out,” ladies often wish. “If only ladies just understand how we feel,” men often wish. Well, Three Guys Talking is a trilogy which chronicles the love lives of three friends from their points of view. Therefore, ladies will get to hear men express their feelings and men may get ladies to understand how they feel too.