Summary

In the story “Sarahland,” a college student named Sarah lived in an all-female, all-Jewish dorm off campus, where two of her roommates were also named Sarah, referred to as Sarah A. and Sarah B., while the narrator was called Dr. Sarah because she was a premed major. The other Sarahs wished to meet a man in college and get married, while the narrator wished to become a marine biologist and study dolphins. There was an all-male Jewish dorm nearby and the boys frequently dropped by unannounced, swarming around the girls like cockroaches. The Sarahs compared themselves to the movie Heathers, which featured a clique of girls named Heather and one named Veronica, who was something of an outcast. Their roommate Sasha, the Sarahs believed, was the Veronica of the house. The narrator felt constricted by her life with the Sarahs, as...