For faculty (of two neurotic types: predators and doormats) campus is evidently a kind of Hunger Games scenario with cutting words and backstabbing replacing bows and arrows. The novel is propulsively narrated by Delorosa (Del) Hanks, a philosophy prof in a “ruthlessly competitive biophysical environment” — a third-rate university in an American town. Despite “excellent credentials,” (Del’s words, a half-truth) tenure hinges on publication of an important book. Del has been writing hers, an “exercise in masochism” titled The Catastrophic Decision, for a over decade. Del’s unstable world tumbles further apart.

Source: thestar March 23, 2018 10:30 UTC