Title: My Education
Author: Susan Choi
Year: 2013/2014
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 304
I picked this up to support an independent bookstore. I liked the cover. It wasn't what I was expecting, in a good way (though what I expected would also have been good). This college novel (fake Ithaca alert) mostly held my interest, mostly had good pacing, and generally satisfied. The language mirrored the hyper-conscious tone of college students trying very hard to impress their faculty and each other. This style has put some readers off; I'd need to read something else by Choi to know if it represents deliberate characterization or is simply how she writes.
The second section seems unbalanced with the first, tacked on, and in some ways, while making a certain amount of emotional sense, raises questions about deceptiveness in the characters' current relationships. However, it nicely illustrates [highlight to see spoiler] the diminution common to revisiting the once beloved, and revisiting the scenes or people from one's college or other young adult years. [end spoiler].
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