At 27, Pella’s life looks settled: she’s a recent college grad, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyfriend, and helping her friend Owen pull off his destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pella’s past and present collide, blowing up her plans and sending her spiraling toward an unplanned future in New York City. Meanwhile, back at Westish College, 21-year-old Irma’s involvement with a politically charged prank --- one that has roiled both the campus and the world beyond --- threatens to derail her brilliant future. As Irma and Pella cycle through possibilities and identities, both navigate the heights and depths of passion and ambition, the incalculable wages of love and loss, and that shimmering anxiety of your 20s when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in.

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.