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On this novella adaption of his strike stage play Suburban Redux, award-winning publisher and playwright Andrew Biss presents a hilarious and poignant tale about love, truth, and popularity in a romantic comedy for the present day family. After 30 years of arid matrimony and suburban monotony, Mrs. Pennington-South's only goal is the fact that her child, Cuthbert, will get away from the circuit of upper-middle-class inertia that suffocated her. Bringing up him in the desire that he is homosexual, she soon commences dragging home potential suitors for tea - on this particular occasion a fairly shy, awkward young man known as Tristram. Cuthbert, however, finds he can't maintain his facade and finally confesses to his mother his guilty secret: his heterosexuality. When Cuthbert leaves to meet Trixie, his new female good friend, Mrs. Pennington-South - heartbroken, but receiving - requires solace together with Tristram, and a common love of the arts soon brings about a newfound friendship. After several weeks, however, Tristram's thoughts undertake more amorous overtones, and a confession of love for a woman almost 30 years his older sends Mrs. Pennington-South into circumstances of mental turmoil. Her stress is further heightened by the unexpected arrival of Cuthbert, merrily announcing that he has taken Trixie home for an introduction and the big news they wish to impart. Mrs. Pennington-South, mortified at having to face the reality of her son's lifestyle choice, fearfully awaits the feared Trixie. Nothing, however, might have ready her for exactly what will come next.
