Nina is dating Howard, a feminist and legal aid lawyer. They both enjoy movies, and they impulsively take ballroom dancing lessons. They have a mutual appreciation for junk food, and both of them are highly disorganized, somewhat lazy, and tend to hoard things. George and Nina swiftly become best friends, and in time their friendship comes close to approximating romantic love. George drops out of Columbia, and takes a job teaching kindergarten alongside Melissa, a trust-fund baby into alternative culture. Angry and hurt, George moves into Nina's Brooklyn apartment. Joley tells Nina that George wants to move out, even though the men have not discussed this. They attend a party where George meets Nina Borowski, a full-figured woman who counsels battered women and rape victims at a women's crisis center while striving for her Ph.D. Joley (George always refers to him by his last name) also has commitment issues, and George's relationship with him is poor. The novel opens as George begins dating Robert Joley, a handsome, 40-year-old literature professor at the college. The novel is told from his point of view. Although somewhat good looking, George has moderate self-esteem problems and deep commitment issues. George Mullen is a 20-something openly gay man enrolled in the English literature graduate school program at Columbia University.
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