Bernadette Santos Schwegel

When melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.

In a debate chamber, affluent high schoolers argue a bill on minimum wage in an effort to impress two working-class adult judges.

After Jane Austen's book is rejected by a well-known publisher, a haywire family dinner and a mysterious dream inspire her to fix it.

Morgan is a sheltered 17-year-old struggling to define who she is, in order to write her college entrance essay. When a crisis provides her the rare opportunity to spend time with her significantly older half-siblings, she hopes they’ll be able to shed some light on what it means to be an adult, only to be disappointed when she discovers they’re all faking it.

Desperate to attend his first convention, a man with an irrational phobia of hobbits must do everything in his power to face his fears—even if it means spending 24 hours with a Frodo Baggins Cosplayer.

In Paris in 1928 American Djuna Barnes writes a farcical novel about the lovers, friends and publishing elite that make up "lesbian Don Juan" Natalie Clifford Barney's sordid salon. Dolly Wilde, Elizabeth Gramont, Romaine Brooks, Mimi Franchetti, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Liane de Pougy, Radclyffe Hall, Mina Loy, Janet Flanner and many more of the finest minds of her time enter her colorful book. Concocted to cheer up Barnes' ailing girlfriend, Thelma Wood, who is sick in the hospital, the story ultimately outlives the romance.

After hastily moving to Rome for a job interview, a Duolingo-reliant woman must grapple with a hard truth when realizes she can't understand a word of Italian.

Convinced that Jane Austen wrote a love story for every scenario, a Darcy-obsessed woman must do everything in her power to prove her theory wrong when she finds out her story might be Northanger Abbey—Austen's least romantic novel.