Susan Choi is the author of the novels My Education, American Woman, A Person of Interest, The Foreign Student, and The National Book Award winner, Trust Exercise. Her work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award and the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. With David Remnick, she co-edited Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn.
Praise for My Education:
“The academic novel married to the novel of obsession is almost too
pleasurable to contemplate, but that’s what this book is…Choi’s an
extremely confident writer, and in My Education she beautifully
explores the way a young person tries, and often fails, to navigate
her budding and intersecting sexual, intellectual, and emotional
lives. The writing in this novel is masterful – but the book
did something to me emotionally, too. I felt like I was in an
obsessive relationship with it. I wanted to read it all the
time.” —Meg Wolitzer, NPR.org
“An unsparing account of the carnal conspiracy between two
gloriously human, difficult women . . . This novel was instrumental
to my approach to [Luster], in the way it presents the desire of
women (unvarnished, without apology) but also in its engagement
with language and the way this lends itself to texture and
sensuality.” —Raven Leilani, author of Luster
“Choi gets top marks for slyly re-inventing the affaire de
l’Académie in My Education.” —Vanity Fair
“A fascinating examination of sexual politics and the many
disguises of desire.” —The Daily Beast
“A scorching hot read…a chaise-lounge literary page-turner par
excellence: sexy, smart, well-plotted, jammed with
observations witty and profound, and so well-written it
occasionally leaves you gasping.” —New York Newsday
“What Choi is after is the elusive territory of experience, the way
people and events imprint us when we’re young and then linger,
exerting a subtle pressure over how we live our lives.” —The Los
Angeles Times
"Sizzling...a story filled with fiery love affairs, regrettable
mistakes, and between-the-sheets scenes that blow 50 Shades of Grey
out of the water." —Self
“Explores a young heart and its painfully naïve and bold ways . . .
It’s The Graduate meets The L Word meets the Carey Mulligan flick
An Education.” —Marie Claire
"My Education is a raw, wild, hurtling foray into the tangled
realms of sexuality and self-knowledge. Susan Choi's vast gifts as
a novelist are all on display, with her restlessness, curiosity and
sheer daring leading the way." —Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan
Beach
“When I finished Susan Choi’s My Education, I nearly gasped. She
had managed one of the most exquisite of the novelist’s magic
acts—produced a cogent, passionate, and surprising story, while
acknowledging the ordinary, eroding aspects of lives lived daily.
She had populated it with remarkable but utterly believable
characters. She had written lines that could be framed, and
displayed at a sentence festival. She has, in short, written
an amazing book.” —Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
