The Lonely Girl's Vegetable Patch

A rural romp through bisexual awakening and obsessive love, as told by one unforgettably unhinged millennial.

It's 2005: Cell phones are dumb, dick pics areemail attachments, and twenty-one-year-old Drewis aimlessly circling in a small Vermont town.Taking a job at a horse stable, Drew is drawn to herseemingly decent but heartbroken manager, Tristan,but finds herself even more entranced by his storiesof Cleo, his older, elusive ex.

When Cleo reemerges to open a coffee shop,Drew bolts over to work there instead. Soon thewomen are an exhilarating conspiracy of two,serving and snarking on regular locals and touristswhile drawing closer to each other. Then, in the wakeof a personal tragedy, Cleo embarks on an affairwith a newcomer. As their intimacy shifts and slips,Drew begins to lose herself-but how much of herselfdid she have in the first place?

Genevieve Plunkett's latest is an offbeat ode tobisexual desire, identity, and how far a person willgo to avoid feeling lonely.