Normal is what people call families that aren’t theirs. Amateur poet Molly Fein is almost 40, still single and craving a new life independent of her elderly parents. Does she dare introduce them to the new boyfriend she’s recently met at night school?

Molly’s mother and father have been separated for years. Ida’s supposed to be living with Molly’s “perfect” sister Maxine on nearby Staten Island. Instead, she’s secretly holed up with Molly, living smack next door to her nearly deaf husband and using a system of hidden bells to track his whereabouts from the other side of the wall.

Hilarious and touching, The Bells of West 87th is a fresh look at the coming of middle age.