A captivating dance of love, passion, and life's deceptions. Joan faces the farewell to ballet: she is pregnant, and her career as a dancer ends before it even begins - if it ever truly began. She marries her old school friend Jacob, and the couple moves from New York to the West Coast, where both silently yearn for the world of ballet: Joan for the dance, Jacob for the dancer Joan once was. But a life for dance means not only drama but also soaring hopes, turbulent emotions, and sublime moments, and Joan is and remains a dancer. "This text is choreographed down to the last detail like a ballet - technically demanding yet effortless." Jeffrey Eugenides.