My Education

"My Education can be roughly described as an academic novel, but unlike many books in that category, it’s thrilling and edgy. There’s no school song here, and nobody sits in a study sipping sherry. Instead, Susan Choi’s main character, graduate student Regina Gottlieb, falls madly in love with her sexy professor’s gorgeous wife, and they begin an affair that becomes all-consuming, causing Regina to completely lose interest in everyone and everything else — including her studies. Choi writes evocatively and excitingly about passion, and equally so about youth — that fleeting, fascinating and all-too-recognizable time of life."