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Confined to a wheelchair, Helen and her son, Matt, are locked in a relationship where love, guilt, recriminations and the ever-present desire to make things right all share centerstage

When it's time to apply to college, Helen tries to hold tightly to her son by influencing his enrollment in a nearby college, while her ex-husband Jerry tries to get the boy into USC, thinking that Matt needs to get some distance from his mother

In addition, Jerry is about to marry his new girlfriend and has yet to figure out how to tell them

Caught in the middle of all this is Matt, and what happens next is at once unexpected and inevitable

"The one liners shoot forth non-stop, some funny, others leaving a bloody track on their target" ~ NY Times