For Fidelity will interest a wide variety of readers because Wallace combines scholarly insight with the practical wisdom of a battle-scarred parent of teenagers. Parents who must contend with the skepticism and the probing questions of adolescents and pre-adolescents will find strong, historically grounded arguments explaining that both the psychology of sex and the psychology of intimacy reveal the importance of commitment and the hazards of casual promiscuity. Parents of younger children will see how the ordinary social lives of children and ordinary familial story-telling provide ample opportunity to teach the basic interpersonal integrity that underlies sexual honesty. Anyone interested in the grounds on which one might intelligently defend sexual commitment in our day will find a witty, engaging, sophisticated argument that synthesizes both contemporary psychology and ancient spiritual traditions to offer a convincing paradigm shift in our thinking about sexual ethics: Wallace sees sexual fidelity not as a form of property rights but rather as the embodied expression of personal integrity. Readers of any sort will enjoy a writer whom The New Yorker called "eloquent" and The Hungry Mind Review praised as "that rare creature among writers, someone both witty and wise."