"Nutting's outrageous writing makes my face split with laughter. . . . She's glorious chaos and utterly original."Lydia Millet"A dark catalog of behavior for her characters and the result is a
Becoming a teacher to fulfill her passion for 14-year-old boys, Celeste Price, an attractive eighth grade English teacher in suburban Tampa, sets her sights on Jack Patrick, who, in awe of her, willin
In this darkly comic and surreal collection from celebrated author Alissa Nutting, misfit women scramble for agency in a series of uncanny circumstancesThroughout these breathtakingly creative sevente
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Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret.
"Becoming a teacher to fulfill her passion for 14-year-old boys, Celeste Price, an attractive eighth grade English teacher in suburban Tampa, sets her sights on Jack Patrick, who, in awe of her, willi
From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love—and how far some will go to escape it. Hazel has just moved into a trail
