Better Reading Preview: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Better Reading Preview: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Our next Preview title is My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell! To register your interest in being a Preview reviewer for this title, just fill out the form below. Please only enter once, and please note we have 60 copies of this book to give away:

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Podcast: Kate Elizabeth Russell on the Sometimes Fine Line Between Coercion and Seduction

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Podcast: Kate Elizabeth Russell on the Sometimes Fine Line Between Coercion and Seduction

    Publisher details

    My Dark Vanessa
    Author
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    Genre
    Fiction
    Released
    01 February, 2020
    ISBN
    9780008342241

    Synopsis

    An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacherVanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher.She is now thirty-two and the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student of his. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. It was love. She's sure of that. But now, in 2017, in the midst of allegations against powerful men, she is being asked to redefine the great love story of her life – her great sexual awakening – as rape.Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, and as riveting as it is disturbing, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues our age is grappling with.
     
     
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    About the author

    Kate Elizabeth Russell

    Kate Elizabeth Russell is originally from eastern Maine. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Kansas and an MFA from Indiana University. Her work has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, and Quarterly West, among other journals, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. This is her first novel.

    Books by Kate Elizabeth Russell

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      Kind regards
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