<p>Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman a panic-stricken philanderer and the world's most beautiful fat woman. <em>Significant Others</em> is Armistead Maupin's cunningly observed meditation on marriage friendship and sexual nostalgia.</p>