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"It's part 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,' part 'American Pie,' with a dry humor that'll keep you flipping." -The Skimm A poignant, hilarious novel that Maggie Shipstead calls "charming... witty and insightful," about a woman who still has her virginity at the age of twenty-six, and the summer she's determined to lose it - and find herself."A candid yet funny take on just what desire and love mean." -The MillionsJulia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change. To re-route herself from her stalled life, Julia travels to spend the summer with her mysterious aunt Vivienne in North Carolina.