After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can ind
ulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up (briefly), ra
ges (deeply), then decamps to her prairie childhood home. There, gradually, she
is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother's circle of feisty widow
s; the young woman next door; and the diabolical teenage girls in her poetry cla
ss. By the end of the summer without men, Mia knows what's worth fighting for -
and on whose terms.
Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, this is a
gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and
the age-old war between the sexes.
