Follow a week in the life of a part-time high school English teacher. At home, her two children ask constant questions. Her husband, always on business calls with Hong Kong at odd hours, shows up for meals only occasionally. At school, her students seem increasingly disconnected, and some put worrying details of their lives into their creative writing assignments. Filled with sly observations about our off-kilter days, this is a witty and resonant novel about the challenges of motherhood, the question of what we owe the people around us, and the search for normalcy in a fractured world.
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