Cartoon characters spring to life in this comic novel set in a small Midwestern town. The reader is taken inside classrooms, bingo parlors, church services, music stores, French classes on television, Poundpatrol meetings, and adult sex shops as the characters fumble through small-town life with blinders on. All roads lead to a High Noonish showdown at the Saturday Bridge Club meeting at the home of Earle Anne Wyckoff, girls' high school guidance counselor and distributor of birth control literature that backfired. Many are invited but others are are expressly not invited but plan to attend anyway. Anything can happen. Will things remain the way they were for Earle Anne?