Women and Children: A Novel

An electric novel about the pleasures and perils of experience and what it means to come of age, from the "stylish, elegant" (Mary Gaitskill) author of Acts of Service.

Everyone has a love story, but hers would be distinguished. It would mark her. She wanted to be so marked.

Prima arrives for her first year of college, determined to enter the lawless, sumptuous world of adulthood. When she begins a relationship with her literature professor, the popular and enigmatic Heiss, she feels as if sh...