"The narrator, Norrie Blume, is a painter who has accepted a prestigious fellowship at the college; she's exicted to leave her job as a commercial graphic designer and take up the artist's life. But she's also in the middle of an intense love affair with a married colleague, an affair that is threatening to consume both their lives. At Radcliffe, Norrie develops friendships with two other fellows, a journalist and a poet. One is deep, comforting; the other ruled by need and guilt.

These three intense relationships quickly begin to infringe upon one another, and soon the four people involved seem to be hurtling toward some shocking - and perhaps tragic - end."--BOOK JACKET.