Vladimir

"“Holy s***, where exactly is this going?” is a question I uttered out loud toward the end of Julia May Jonas’ debut novel. Our nameless narrator is a 50-something tenured professor at a liberal arts college. She’s married to her department chair, who becomes a casualty of the #MeToo movement when former students come forward with misconduct allegations. But she isn’t terribly concerned with the women or his fate because she’s infatuated with a new junior professor. Jonas builds a house made out of matchsticks where our protagonist’s desires live – until reaching a flashpoint when everything goes up in smoke."

"It was delicious and weird, and the underlying social commentary was sharp. The big twist totally got me."

""Vladimir," by Julia May Jonas (which I finished! So good)"