The Adamant I: An Anti-University University Novel

By S. Stiles

Academia today is a stream of bullshit, and Tessa Stevens' boat is sinking.

Tessa is a young adjunct professor with working-class roots and an unfortunate tendency of telling the truth, two features that might spell doom for her career prospects. Along with her sardonic best friend, Adrian Murphy, an M.B.A. student, Tessa navigates the farcical, identity politics-obsessed world of today's college campus, including a pandering circus-themed student orientation event, a bizarre faculty diversity training session, and a lecture by a controversial guru-like philosophy professor, which breaks out into a riot. Eventually deciding she can no longer be true to herself and remain in academia, Tessa goes rogue.

This is a campus novel unlike others-not a satire that gently pokes fun at the absurdities of life in the Ivory Tower, but a book that launches a full-force frontal attack on the contemporary university. THE ADAMANT I is a dark comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously, even while it asks some serious questions: can an honest person survive a miseducation in today's toxic iteration of the liberal arts? Is the modern university a woke-brainwashing machine? And what is the price of self-censorship-to the individual and to society?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086Y5H2VV
• ISBN13: 9798635082508
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"