CIRCLING THE DATE is a cautionary tale about a commitment-phobic sexually-compulsive thirty-year-old manboy and the equally neurotic woman desperate to marry him. It is a peek at psyches fractured by absent and distracted parents; an ethos for a generation of adults woefully unprepared for the gift of intimacy. CIRCLING THE DATE is literary commercial fiction that is companionable and humane lighthearted and...surprisingly touching.