The vivisectors a novel

"In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by nature, where power is held in a fragile balance between academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, the reclusive narrator of The Vivisectors spends her days propping up the career of her needy and fraudulent professor boss. Then a controversy...

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Main Author: Williams, Missouri, 1992- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:"In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by nature, where power is held in a fragile balance between academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, the reclusive narrator of The Vivisectors spends her days propping up the career of her needy and fraudulent professor boss. Then a controversy ruptures her careful routine: Adam, a contrarian student and an obsession of the boss, comes into heated conflict with a young professor, with both men claiming discrimination. The crisis subsumes the university, though the narrator is unmoved--not even the attempted suicide of her estranged mother has been enough to dispel her lack of engagement with the world. But when her boss commands her to befriend Adam, the narrator finds herself both caught up in the events threatening to tear the city apart and increasingly drawn to the alluring student at the heart of it all."--
Physical Description:276 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780374619299
0374619298
Author Notes:Missouri Williams is the author of The Doloriad , which won the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize, was short-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and was named a best book of 2022 by Vulture . Her work has also appeared in The Nation , The Baffler , The Believer , Granta , and The Drift .