This summer, meet Regina Gottlieb as she becomes entangled with a magnetic professor - and his volatile wife. A scorching novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Flashlight In the heat of September, and the heady rush of starting her graduate degree, Regina Gottlieb is entranced by her controversial professor Nicholas Brodeur. Against all advice, she becomes embroiled in his world, only to betray him in a passionate love affair with his charismatic, volatile wife. This is the story of Regina's mistakes, which begin in the bedroom and end - if they do - fifteen years in the future and thousands of miles away.

Details

ISBN13: 9781529997750
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 304
Edition:
Publication Date: 16 Jun 2026
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x13(L)x2.1(W)210
Weight (gm): 210

Author Biography

Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Flashlight began as a short story and received the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Susan Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews

Surprised me and thrilled me * The New Yorker *
A raw, wild, hurtling foray into the tangled realms of sexuality and self-knowledge -- Jennifer Egan
An unsparing account of the carnal conspiracy between two gloriously human, difficult women -- Raven Leilani
When I finished Susan Choi’s My Education, I nearly gasped... An amazing book -- Michael Cunningham
This is a book that fulfils all the promise of a long, hot summer * New York Magazine *