Tolstoy Lied — Rachel Kadish

Rachel Kadish offers a take on modern love in a romantic comedy that is as enchanting as it is intelligent. Tolstoy famously wrote, "All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." To thirty-three-year-old English professor Tracy Farber, this celebrated maxim is questionable at best. If Tolstoy is to be taken at his word, only unhappiness can be interesting and happiness must be dull and pedestrian. Disturbed, Tracy secretly nurtures an unusual project: proving that happiness is interesting, in literature and in life. Although challenging master Tolstoy is a potential threat to her job security, Tracy is confident. After all, she's her own perfect example--content with friends and work and satisfied to be single. But little does she know that her best proof will come when she meets George, who will sweep her off her feet and challenge all of her theories. When love proves more complicated than Tracy had imagined, she wonders if she'll ever find happiness that fulfills both her head and her heart.