An aspiring actress meets an Icelandic Yak farmer on a matchmaking Web site. An online forum for cancer support turns into a love triangle. A deer and a polar bear flirt via Skype. In The Hypothetical Girl a menagerie of characters graze and jockey, play and hook up in the online dating world with mixed and sometimes dark results. They grope their way through a virtual maze of potential mates, falling in and out of what they think and hope may be true love.With levity and high style, Cohen takes her readers into a world where screen and keyboard meet the heart.