While eating lunch on a park bench, Leslie Carter listens as man a short distance away recounts his tumultuous life story to a gray squirrel. The rodent is a sympathetic listener.
Ralph Tucker is dating a woman who favors Orvis, genuine hornback crocodile belts. The dainty accessories retail for just under six hundred dollars. If Ralph’s romance blossoms, he’s going to need a second job.
Miriam Jacobs’ parents found their daughter’s future husband on a three-by-five index card in a marriage broker’s Rolodex file. Forty years later, Miriam wishes they had chosen differently.
Marty Humphrey is dropping out of college. He doesn’t quite know what he wants to do with his screwed up existence, but maybe he will find personal fulfillment at a sixties-era commune, the Abode of Infinite Compassion, in northern Maine.
Claudia Lanni, who can quote eighteenth century economic theory while mending Orek XL two-thousand vacuum cleaners at Vacuum World, just met the love of her life.
After a stock portfolio goes haywire, Allen Edgemont, an investment counselor with a Boston-based brokerage firm, seeks advice from a rather unlikely source – the elderly woman who cleans the office complex.
An ex-nun, Francine Spicuzza, must decide what to do with her 19-inch, Sony Trinitron TV that conveniently fell off the back of an eighteen wheeler.
Thirteen year-old Eddy Baxter wants to play with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, preferably principal trumpet. He also intends to marry Vicki Smithers, his forever soul mate who lives two streets over.
When away from the convent, Sister Claudia, a Cistercian nun, favors St. Pauli Girl draft beer and Cajun catfish with Creole seasoning - green onions, jalapenos, garlic pepper, and a sharp Monterey jack cheese.
Following his nervous breakdown Michael Levin lost his job, lavish apartment and fiancé. Sister Angelique, who arrived unannounced with her rosary beads and benevolent smile, may be the fragile soul’s last hope.
The Martinellis are renting the spare bedroom in their home. The choice is between an exotic dancer who works the VIP lounge at the local strip joint and a kind-hearted waitress with a penchant for Edith Wharton novels.
Grandpa Morris just left everything he ever owned to his ne’er-do-well grandson, Marcus. Needless to say, the rest of the family ain’t too happy.
When Ronda Wickford hires a middle-age man with a PhD in philosophy to run the market’s fresh produce department, weird things happen. She learns a thing or two about Wittgenstein’s linguistic theories, common decency and how to fix a leaky faucet.
On his deathbed, Mary McCarthy’s father sputtered, “You should have married the Jew.” Never once in his seventy-plus years had the freckle-faced Irishman apologized to anyone, admitted a mistake or human frailty.
Foul-mouthed Marna Copparelli, who waitresses at Guido's Pizza, wouldn't know a semicolon from a large intestine. Luther Buttafuoco writes books that get reviewed in the New York Times. He wants a date with Marna Copparelli. Good luck, Luther!