Poor Geneva Aberdeen. Although she has a boyfriend, a stable (albeit lowly) job at an Indian catering company, and an important position in the local literary society, she does not have Nikolaus Gaetjens, the love of her life. Enter said loveÑan older music history professor with a familyÑand the ensuing flirtation ultimately threatens GenevaÕs relationship with her boyfriend as well as her sister, who was once involved with Dr. Gaetjens herself. Can Geneva glean any words of wisdom from the nineteenth-century Russian author Ivan Turgenev before it is too late?