The two begin an affair that shakes the foundation of who Isabel thinks she is, for better and worse. His belief in her ignites a belief in herself. Connelly makes Isabel feel seen, beautiful, talented the woman she longs to become. Connelly: a once-famous poet and Isabel’s married writing professor, a man with secrets of his own. Now, right as she’s coming to believe she’s finally found her place, the fallout from a nonconsensual sexual encounter with one of the only other Jewish students on campus leaves Isabel reeling.Įnter R.H. The only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, Isabel has always felt out of place at Wilder, and the death of her mother shortly before she arrived on campus left her feeling unmoored in a way that’s proven hard to shake. It’s the winter of 1998 and Isabel Rosen has one semester left at Wilder College, a prestigious school in New Hampshire with a wealthy, elite student body and the sort of picturesque buildings college brochures were invented to capture. on February 14, 2023Īn incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman’s final semester at an elite New England college into controversy and chaos-and into an ill-advised affair with a married professor
My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
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