Bianca, an English instructor at a community college (“Do you really teach five intro courses each semester?”), organizes a book club. On the inaugural evening, none of the colleagues she invited manage to make it. That leaves her with her pathologically honest husband, her novelist son by a previous marriage, his estranged girlfriend, recently institutionalized for stabbing the son, and one of Bianca’s new students, who has yet to read a book.

The chaos at the first meeting over what book to select turns to horror when it’s discovered that Bianca’s son is writing an autobiographical novel in which the others appear. Horror turns to curiosity and a demand to read the manuscript, which becomes the book club’s selection for discussion, leaving everyone to wonder if they can possibly retain any love for fiction after this.

Playwright Marisa Wegrzyn (Butcher of Baraboo; Killing Women) writes, “This play is filled with smart, raunchy humor and lunacy. The threats of violence, mental instability, sexual promiscuity, disaster, and a possible stabbing are all delightful.”