My Education

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An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from an award-winning author. An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the National Book Award-winning author ofTrust Exercise andA Person of Interest 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.

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The academic novel married to the novel of obsession is almost too pleasurable to contemplate, but thats what this book isChois an extremely confident writer, and in My Education she beautifully explores the way a young person tries, and often fails, to navigate her budding and intersecting sexual, intellectual, and emotional lives. The writing in this novel is masterful but the book did something to me emotionally, too. I felt like I was in an obsessive relationship with it. I wanted to read it all the time. Meg Wolitzer, NPR.org

An unsparing account of the carnal conspiracy between two gloriously human, difficult women . . . This novel was instrumental to my approach to [Luster], in the way it presents the desire of women (unvarnished, without apology) but also in its engagement with language and the way this lends itself to texture and sensuality. Raven Leilani, author of Luster

Choi gets top marks for slyly re-inventing the affaire de lAcadmie in My Education. Vanity Fair

A fascinating examination of sexual politics and the many disguises of desire. The Daily Beast

A scorching hot reada chaise-lounge literary page-turner par excellence: sexy, smart, well-plotted, jammed with observations witty and profound, and so well-written it occasionally leaves you gasping. New York Newsday

What Choi is after is the elusive territory of experience, the way people and events imprint us when were young and then linger, exerting a subtle pressure over how we live our lives. The Los Angeles Times

"Sizzling...a story filled with fiery love affairs, regrettable mistakes, and between-the-sheets scenes that blow 50 Shades of Grey out of the water." Self

Explores a young heart and its painfully nave and bold ways . . . Its The Graduate meets The L Word meets the Carey Mulligan flick An Education. Marie Claire

"My Education is a raw, wild, hurtling foray into the tangled realms of sexuality and self-knowledge. Susan Choi's vast gifts as a novelist are all on display, with her restlessness, curiosity and sheer daring leading the way." Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach

When I finished Susan Chois My Education, I nearly gasped. She had managed one of the most exquisite of the novelists magic actsproduced a cogent, passionate, and surprising story, while acknowledging the ordinary, eroding aspects of lives lived daily. She had populated it with remarkable but utterly believable characters. She had written lines that could be framed, and displayed at a sentence festival. She has, in short, written an amazing book. Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

Author Bio

Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her third, A Person of Interest, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, in 2010 she received the PEN/W. G.Sebald Award. She teaches at Princeton and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and sons.