Dating Big Bird

by Laura Zigman

Published 9 September 1999
Ellen Franck and Marian Abrams are smart, attractive, urban women, with big jobs in the fashion business. They have witnessed their contemporaries following the route of marriage, children, exile to suburbia, and a general loveless, sexless existence. But now Ellen and Marian discover that they both hear the same, terrible noise. It is the ticking of the biological clock.