My dark Vanessa : a novel

Summary: 2000. Fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. Thought-provoking, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood.

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ISBN: 9780062976802 (paperback)
Physical Description: regular print
372 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York, New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020.
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 3 / 5.0