Romantic Comedy

A successful writer for a legendary television comedy series and plagued by a string of romantic disappointments, Sally Milz has long since given up on finding love.

But when her friend and colleague Danny Horst starts dating Annabel, a glamorous actress, he joins the rather exclusive group of talented, but plain-looking and even rather dim-witted men who end up romantically involved with incredibly beautiful and successful women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, mocking this phenomenon while highlighting how unlikely it is for the reverse to happen to a woman.

Then Sally meets Noah, a pop music icon with a reputation for dating models. Dazzled by his charm, Sally instantly hits it off with Noah, and as they work together on sketches for the show, she begins to wonder if there really could be something more. But this is no romantic comedy—it’s real life. And in real life, someone like him would never date someone like her... right?

With his keen observations and characteristic ability to bring complex women to life, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the wonder of love, which induces neurosis and makes the heart race, while mischievously dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations in the modern era.