How to be safe : a novel

Summary: Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice at home when she is shocked to see herself named on television as a suspect in a shooting at the school where she works. Though she is quickly exonerated, and the actual teenage murderer identified, her life is nevertheless held up for relentless scrutiny and judgment as this quiet town descends into media mania. This is a piercing feminist howl written in trenchant prose, a compulsively readable, darkly funny exposé of the hypocrisy that ensues when illusions of peace are shattered.

Item details

ISBN: 9781631494130
ISBN: 1631494139
Physical Description: print
232 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]

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