The mischievously funny, complicated, and sometimes heartbreaking story of Sara Wolfe, a young professor who puts her job on the line when she is tempted by a career-threatening relationship with a student (who's also a rock star). As she tells herself alternative truths about this and all her other self-destructive tendencies, including an eating disorder (it's just an attempt to get back into her designer jeans) and flirting with inappropriate people (but only when she's drunk, which is most of the time), her life descends into chaos.

While her best friends, Professor Marco Gonzalves (an award-winning poet) and Dr. Jane Curran (director of the campus-based Women's Resource Center where, ironically, Sara counsels students with food issues), try to save her with alcohol-ridden intervention parties, she only continues to increase her intake of pinot noir, lose more weight, and get closer to Poetry Boy (her famous pupil).

Struggling to connect it all with the damage of a past sexual assault, she has some choices to make. None of them are predictable.