Claire McMinn has three goals: to stay sober, to stay away from sex, and to get into film school. She's already adept at surviving her crazed family, rescuing (and seducing) her best friend, and pretending to ignore the advice of her sponsor--a gay man, impervious, fortunately, to all her charms. As Verge begins, Claire's last goal is jeopardized when a past affair with a professor's wife catches up with her and she is kicked out of his class. In...