This is a tedious book filled with cliche characters. Features the PhD struggles of the daughter of rich parents who just happen to have a cabin in a "quaint" town in the California Sierras inhabited by "quaint" folks. Don't waste your time on this one.

"It's 1981, and Ph. D. candidate Cressida Hartley is struggling with her dissertation, so she's moved to the relative isolation of her parents' cabin in the Sierras to finish up. Instead, free for maybe the first time in her life, she allows herself to be drawn into the small dramas of the local mountain community. This includes going from a fling with one man to a serious relationship with another -- who happens to be married. And it is that relationship that will come to define Cress' life, for better or worse, for the next several years. A heartbreaking story, Off Course will appeal to fans of reflective novels featuring sympathetic characters." Fiction A to Z May 2014 newsletter http://www.libraryaware.com/996/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/96117fb3-f773-4ebe-a30e-0933ee1fb11f?postId=88caf547-9d7c-4692-932a-8cbe7ef5fe90