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Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her.

Wohin geht eine Frau, wenn es keinen Weg zurück gibt? Anna Benz, eine Amerikanerin Ende dreißig, lebt mit ihrem Schweizer Ehemann Bruno und ihren drei kleinen Kindern in einem Postkarten-Vorort Zürichs. Von außen betrachtet führt sie ein komfortables, abgesichertes Leben; im Inneren bricht sie auseinander.

Austin Gray is almost 15 and sheï¿¿ï¿¿s tired of not being noticed. So she hatches a plan to become Prosper County's Sweetheart in order to ride through town during the annual parade waving and smiling to everyone. To make her dream come true, however, she'll have to join the Future Farmers of America. But what's a little hunting and fishing (and livestock raising) to a determined teenager?