From the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten- Year Nap--a funny provocative novel about female desire When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses Lysistrata as the school play-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school Or at least over the women One by one throughout the high school community perfectly healthy normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom for reasons they dont really understand As the women worry over their loss of passion and the men become by turns unhappy offended and above all confused both sides are forced to look at their shared history and at their sexual selves in a new lightMeg Wolitzerss newest book The Interestings is now available from Riverhead Books.
