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In a Southern city in the early 1980s, Sarah and David fall in love during their first year at a competitive performing arts high school ruled by a charismatic drama teacher, and years later the story of what happened there is told again.
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Fates and Furies
The marriage of Lotto and Mathilde, a charismatic playwright and his enigmatic wife, is told twice, first from his side and then from hers, and the two stories do not match.
Sabbath's Theater
A sixty-four-year-old puppeteer of unspeakable depravity refuses to apologise for a life devoted to art, sex, and the refusal of every social norm.
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Blue van Meer, a precocious teenager who has spent her life moving between college towns with her father, a charismatic professor, enrols for her senior year at a North Carolina school and falls in with a clique of students devoted to a magnetic film-studies teacher.
The Topeka School
In 1990s Topeka, Adam Gordon, a high school debate champion whose parents are psychologists at a renowned clinic, navigates competition, toxic masculinity and a lonely classmate's slow-burning anger, in a novel about where today's American speech came from.
If We Were Villains
Ten years after a death at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver Marks walks out of prison and finally tells the detective who put him there what happened among seven fourth-year acting students who lived and breathed Shakespeare.
The Time of the Hero
At the Leoncio Prado military academy in Lima, a cadet steals the questions for a chemistry exam, and the theft sets off a chain of events among the boys of the fifth year.
What's Mine and Yours
When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.
Half His Age
Waldo, a seventeen-year-old in Anchorage, Alaska, who lives with her mother in a cramped apartment, develops an obsessive crush on her married creative writing teacher after a breakup, and sets out to pursue him.
The Shards
A teenager in 1980s L.A. discovers that a serial killer may be operating in his wealthy community, and the memoir-novel hybrid blurs truth and fiction like everything Ellis writes.
Heaven
Two 14-year-olds in a Tokyo school, both targets of relentless bullying, find each other and argue about whether suffering has meaning.
True Biz
At the River Valley School for the Deaf, Charlie, a teenager whose cochlear implant has never worked well, arrives late in her schooling, February, the hearing headmistress, fights to keep the school open, and Austin, a student from a deaf family, faces change at home.
Light in August
A pregnant woman, a disgraced minister, and an outsider collide in a Mississippi town, and Faulkner uses their intersecting stories to expose the violence of Southern racial and religious codes.