Cupid Resigns

Is romance dead That is the question. At his wit's end with his mother Venus's fixation on earthly love, the weary Cupid flings away his quiver, and Jupiter banishes him from Olympus until he can fulfill his mother's demand. On earth, Cupid haphazardly releases a lethal, golden arrow that finds its target in the unsuspecting Trock Vandermere. But, the object of his sudden, mad passion, Roses Schultz, a former ballerina, will have nothing to do with him. With sympathetic neighbors and friends conspiring to make a match between the two, an orchestrated mayhem ensues.

"Cupid Resigns" is the cheeky, charming romantic comedy by Diana Shapiro that proves that the gods must be crazy, and that humans are even nuttier still. When Cupid is cast out, he ends up in the respectably attractive body of a human named Ethan Fielding. Before you know it, his golden arrow goes horribly awry, and pierces the heart of a chiropractor named Trock Vandermere. He is instantly smitten with the woman beside him, an artist named Roses Schultz with a keen eye and penchant for baggy clothes.

Mixing contemporary issues of fine romance and utter rejection, "Cupid Resigns" is a rollicking work of magical realism that offers a laugh-out-loud look at some celebrity gods and not-so-famous humans, while it always aims straight for the heart.