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From your New York Times best-selling writer of You MUST HAVE Known and Admission, a twisty new novel about a college or university leader, a baffling college student protest, plus some of the very most hot-button issues on today's college or university campuses. Naomi Roth is the first woman leader of Webster College, a once-conservative school now known for producing fired-up progressive graduates. So Naomi isn't astonished or unduly alarmed when Webster students start the fall season semester with a patio encampment around "The Stump" - a normal campus gathering place for generations of college student activists - to protest a popular professor's denial of tenure. A previous college student radical herself, Naomi admires the protestors' enthusiasm, in particular when her own little princess, Hannah, joins their rates. Then Omar Khayal, a charismatic Palestinian college student with a damaging personal record, emerges as the group's leader, and the demonstration begins to take Naomi's life, destabilizing Webster College from the inside out. As the crisis slips beyond her control, Naomi must take progressively more desperate measures to protect her friends, colleagues, and family from an unknowable adversary. Touching on some of the most topical and questionable concerns at the heart of our modern culture, this riveting novel examines the fragility that is placed behind who we think we have been - and whatever we think we believe.
