A finely observed debut novel that paints a funny, moving, truthful portrayal of a family at a turning point: "A triumph" (Helen Schulman, New York Times bestselling author of This Beautiful Life).

Leopold Portman dreams of settling down in Philadelphia's bucolic suburbs and starting a family with his fiancee, Nora. A talented singer in mourning for her mother, Nora has abandoned a promising opera career and wonders what her destiny holds. Her best friend, Stephen, Leopold's brother, dithers in his seventh year of graduate school and privately questions Leo and Nora's...

Mya May Westfield has a vivid imagination when it comes to the opposite sex. She often finds herself drifting off - as she finds it impossible not to wonder how a night (or day) with a handsome man will turn out. She keeps a journal of her liasons and her thoughts- the real ones and the fantasies.