Susan Choi

Warned about the controversial and womanizing activities of Professor Nicholas Brodeur before her arrival at his prestigious university, graduate student Regina Gottlieb is nevertheless captured by his charisma and good looks before falling prey to his volatile wife in ways that resonate throughout subsequent years. By the Pulitzer Prize finalist author of American Woman.

My Education

All through college with instincts befitting a bloodhound I'd unearthed variations on this theme, boys with long hair and tormented, hooded eyes and a cramp in the wrist from the thick hardbound Collected Journals of Kierkegaard they insisted on carrying everywhere without the benefit of a backpack. They all tended to brood and weep thrillingly, they were as sexually suave as castrati, and they were perhaps all in love with one another, not me. But by some accident of my early environment I'd been raised on them, as a person might be raised on an unnourishing, bland home cuisine, and then want to eat nothing else.

Matthew had never been one to pore over the past, to fetishise my baby pictures, to play the voyeur to my lurid depictions of previous carnal milestones. Love for him was not a ritual of disclosing, confessing, or unearthing, but a resolute march to the future, well planned and equipped and unhindered by doubt.

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