The Learning Curve A Novel Mandy Berman by Mandy Berman 9780399589348, 9780399589355, 0399589341, 039958935X instant download after payment.

Fiona & Liv are seniors at Buchanan College, a small liberal arts school in rural Pennsylvania. Fiona, who is still struggling emotionally after the death of her younger sister, is spending her final college year sleeping with abrasive men she meets in bars. Liv is happily coupled & on the fast track to marriage with an all-American frat boy. Both of their journeys, & their friendship, will be derailed by the relationships they develop with Oliver Ash, a ruggedly good-looking visiting literature professor whose first novel was published to great success when he was twenty-six.

But now, Oliver is in his early forties, with thinning hair, & a checkered past, including talk of a relationship with an underage woman—a former student—at a previous teaching job. Meanwhile, Oliver’s wife, Simone, is pursuing an academic research project in Berlin, raising their five-year-old son, dealing with her husband’s absence, and wondering if their marriage is beyond repair.

This sly, stunning, wise-beyond-its-years novel is told from the perspectives of the three women & showcases Mandy Berman’s talent for exploring the complexities of desire, friendship, identity, & power dynamics in the contemporary moment.

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Mandy Berman is the author of Perennials & The Learning Curve. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Time, & Poets & Writers. She teaches creative writing at Montclair State University & Manhattanville College, & lives in Brooklyn.