My Education

By Susan Choi

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143125575
• ISBN13: 9780143125570
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Heartbreakingly Beautiful

This book was, at times, slow to get through, but the development of the relationships between characters was so compelling that I just kept reading. A beautiful story about life, love, and learning who you are.