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and monumental self-absorption retains considerable power to disturb

the clanking of her cooking pots

" She introduces us to Bill

Her thirty-two-year-old twins are having career meltdowns

My Dark Vanessa Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School (2016) like MitchExploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet nave teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen year old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty two year old English teacher. Amid the rising wave of