Sandra Foster is a scientist working at a company called HiTek. She studies fads, and is currently working on figuring out how/where the hair bob fad started. HiTek has recently hired a new mail clerk who can't seem to get anything right, nor does she seem to care. There is a grant awarded to scientists, sort of randomly, but HiTek wants to do everything they can to have one of their scientists win the grant.

I liked it. There really isn't very much of a plot, but I liked the characters and it was humourous. Reading about the various fads throughout history was fun, too.

What a perfect gem of a book. This is Willis at her funniest and sharpest and romantic-ness-est. A good place to start if you're wondering whether you'll like her or not. (Though be warning, half her books are deeply serious, the other--like this--are much lighter.)

This book is a keeper. I have been interested in chaos theory since Jurassic Park introduced the concept - The Bellwether clarities it.