Animals Out Of Paper

Ilana, a world-renowned origami artist, is going through a divorce, her dog has run away, and she hasn’t answered her phone in months. Her intercom buzzes and in walks Andy, a high school teacher who literally counts his blessings (he’s up to 7,904.) Andy introduces Suresh, an urban teen iPod addict and origami prodigy into Ilana’s life, folding the plot into complicated turns. A wise and richly layered comedy/drama, AOP is “alternately wrenching and funny. It deals ruthlessly with the fragility of happiness, the tragedy of impulsiveness and the tenuousness of hope”( via The New York Times).