The story of one woman's search for sexual abuse in her past. "Myatt's tale is] a journey into childhood secrets and family dysfunction. Mary lives in Chicago and works as a bank teller. She has an appetite for sexual encounters but none for intimacy. Her behavior plagues and bewilders her, so she sets out to uncover whatever dark secrets are haunting her and causing her to act out. Mary returns to her family for a surprise visit, where she is treated to the controlling antics of her Midwestern Martha Stewart mom, the creepy doting of her tire salesman dad, and the freaked-out competition...

One night in a motel room in the middle of Idaho, a woman finds comfort in a few bored strangers. She's having seizures, lost, broke, looking for home. She meets a young man who's never left home. They find something in each other that neither expected, a place to rest.

In the early 1950s, a psychologist sets out to write the definitive book on THE SEX HABITS OF AMERICAN WOMEN. Meanwhile, his wife is having an affair with his former student, his daughter can't find love, and all his theories refuse to go unchallenged. Juxtaposed to the action in the 1950s is a present-day videographer making a documentary on precisely the same subject. "Funny, gently satiric, at times almost poignant ... Myatt, an up-and-coming young playwright, excels at acute, unexpected punch lines. She lightly blends in multimedia elements and deftly plants seeds that pay off in later...