He agrees to her plan when she accidentally bumps into him at his work, a dry cleaner/ tailor shop run by his mother. Michael drives Stella home and she proposes a new plan, asking him to be her pretend boyfriend instead so she can practice being in a relationship. Stella confirms his suspicions but he does not tell Michael.
Michael’s cousin, Quan, follows her and recognizes the signs of autism due to his brother being autistic.
Stella sees them kiss and runs outside, overwhelmed by the noise and the crowd. Michael tells her that he wants to take her dancing for their next session, believing this will loosen her up.Īt the club, Michael runs into an ex-client and she forcibly kisses him and offers him money to be with her. Their second session goes much like the first, with Stella freezing up when it gets to intimate.
Finding her very attractive, he relents and says he will give her three more sessions. The next morning Michael tells her he cannot see her again as he does not take repeat clients. In her hotel room, she enjoys kissing Michael but freezes when he tries to go further. Stella proposes that she be his only client for a few months so he can teach her some skills. Michael escorts on Friday nights to help pay for his mother’s medical bills. Stella hires Michael, a handsome 28 year old who resembles a Korean movie star. Stella looks online for an escort, believing they could teach her about how to be good at sex. At her office, the colleague her mother suggests she date, Philip James, tells her that it is important for her to be good at sex in order to get a boyfriend. While at lunch with her parents, Stella’s mother pressures her to find a husband. The third- person omniscient narrator introduces us to 30 year old Stella Lane, a wealthy and successful econometrist living in Palo Alto who has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Hoang, Helen.
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