Number 6 Fumbles

Rachel Solar-Tuttle's sharply drawn, dead-on portrait of college life recounts the alternately comic and poignant efforts of an overachieving young woman on a quest to find herself.

Meet Beck. As in Rebecca. She''s the good one, the proverbial complete package: the one all the professors like, the one who gets the party invites and keeps people laughing, the one who seems to pull the straight A''s out of a magic hat and the one whom friends can count on no matter what. So when she sees Number Six on the football team fumble the ball at a crucial moment during the ultra-crucial Penn-Cornell game, Beck is totally unprepared for the scary downturn her life susequently takes. Number Six''s mishap broadsides Beck, filling her with an unfamiliar sense of doubt about the course of her own life. Indulging in her own private odyssey of alcohol and anonymous hook-ups, Beck immerses herself in a frantically paced night life as she searches for connection and self-realisation in an uncertain world, where all bets are off and where the map to happiness seems permanently mislaid.