Pip

Purity “Pip” Tyler is a 24-year-old college graduate who is working a dead end job in power purchasing, is active in the antinuclear community, and is $130,000 in debt from student loans when the novel begins. Pip is beautiful, kind, and perceptive, though frustrated by her financial situation. She appeals to her mother, Penelope, for information about her father, whose identity is unknown, with the hopes that he will pay off her debt as repayment for his absence in her life. Frustrated further by her mother’s refusal to provide information, heartbroken over being rejected by Stephen, and intrigued by an offer from Annagret to work at the Sunlight Project, Pip changes her life. She agrees to work for Andreas Wolf at Sunlight, where she hopes she will learn more about her father.

Pip falls in love with Andreas and nearly has a sexual affair with him, but heeds...