My Education

Description

An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercise and Flashlight

Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. He’s said to lie in the dark in his office while undergraduate women read couplets to him. He’s condemned on the walls of the women’s restroom, and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one has warned Regina about his exceptional physical beauty–or his charismatic, volatile wife.

My Education is the story of Regina’s mistakes, which only begin in the bedroom, and end–if they do–fifteen years in the future and thousands of miles away. By turns erotic and completely catastrophic, Regina’s misadventures demonstrate what can happen when the chasm between desire and duty is too wide to bridge.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Susan Choi
Published: 05/27/2014
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143125570
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 8.30″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
Susan Choi is the author of the novels My Education, American Woman, A Person of Interest, The Foreign Student, and The National Book Award winner, Trust Exercise. Her work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award and the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. With David Remnick, she co-edited Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn.