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Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve.

A soft, melancholic whimsy drifts through this gentle study of a sensitive soul caught between intellectual ideals and the messy reality of desire. It captures that specific, bittersweet ache of being young, observant, and profoundly misunderstood by the world.