At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything: work, love, and, most of all, family. Then, one night, she crashed a grad school friend’s Shakespeare recitation party. No matter that she was brain-addled from vodka shots and had never read a single thing Shakespeare had written. Shakespeare, she decided, was the lifeline she desperately needed. GREEN WORLD is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Ephraim’s unlikely quest to become a Shakespeare scholar.