Lydia is an overweight sales clerk in a trendy home furnishings store, nearing 30. Though she is a member of a Fat Acceptance Group (a movement dedicated to fighting prejudice against overweight people), she is still struggling with complex feelings about her body and its place in the world. Darcy, a recovering-anorexic real estate agent in her mid-20s, is struggling with the same issues from a very different perspective.
Book editor Max Normane can perfect anyone’s story apart from her own. Highly successful but highly single, she comes up with a novel plan: a publication in exchange for a sperm donation. But will she get her happy ending?
Dick Harper, después de años de duro trabajo, es por fin ascendido a vicepresidente en Globodyne, empresa líder a nivel mundial en la consolidación de propiedades de medios de comunicación. Pero, al día siguiente de su nombramiento, un escándalo tipo Enron arruina la empresa. Entonces Dick y su mujer Jane ven horrorizados cómo su lujosa casa, sus ostentosos coches e incluso sus amistades se desvanecen como por arte de magia.
