A take on the campus novel that follows an adjunct professor gigging her way through academia’s poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser, whose new novel might be about her.
Entertaining, provocative ... A ripped-from-the-headlines dispatch from the front lines of the campus wars ... The Adjunct, for better and for worse, is not quite that radical a novel. That is, until its final pages ... Powerfully written.
Through Sam’s eyes, she exposes the absurd hierarchies and quiet humiliations of academic life with biting wit and emotional precision. Both a campus novel and a social reckoning, The Adjunct holds up an unflinching mirror to the systems that exploit passion in the name of prestige.
