Selma's Dowry — Jac Simensen

A tender, off-beat love story set in the turbulent 1960's; a time of of dramatic social upheaval, the Vietnam War and the assassination of President Kennedy. Selma Katz, a serious, intelligent, sophisticated woman, has a beautiful, sensual body but a less than attractive face. She's thirty, and contrary to her dreams, is beginning to accept her future as a single woman. Selma's earthy, Jewish father is desperate to find a husband for his daughter and offers a substantial dowry to someone who'll take Selma off his hands. Connor Sullivan is a handsome, intelligent, lazy, self-indulgent, womanizing twenty-three year old who's just flunked out of college. Through a series of seemingly random events, Selma and Connor are thrown together, and although they have little in common, they slowly, almost begrudgingly, develop a mutually supportive friendship that moves in directions neither of them can predict or control.