![]() ![]() Giving an incredibly authentic insider’s view of this mythologised institution. ![]() ![]() Through its dormitories and dining halls, its elite finals clubs and lecture halls, and into the chambers of its ambitious professors. Nick McDonell’s third novel grants readers entry to the world of Harvard. Michael Teak is a twenty-five-year-old recent Harvard grad working as an American intelligence operative who meets Hatashil in David’s village minutes before the massacre that will upend all their lives. He is trying, sometimes, just to get by in a foreign place. He is trying to understand Jane, his girlfriend from a privileged background. He is trying to become a member of one of Harvard’s elite finals clubs. David Ayan is her singular Somali-born student. A happily married mother of two in a tenure-track job at Harvard, she has just won a Pulitzer Prize for her book lionizing Hatashil, an East African freedom fighter. ![]()
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