Fresh margot wood6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Even so, strong secondary characters, including Elliot’s precocious younger sister and her matter-of-fact RA, reveal Elliot’s strengths and flaws, and character discussions around consent and sexual discovery ring true. Elliot’s narration breaks the fourth wall often, through footnotes and “dear reader” interjections in places, this technique works, but lengthy footnote asides frequently interrupt the reading experience (“Have I told you, dear reader, how much I love you lately?”). Amid the fallout, she realizes that she must take responsibility for her education mend her relationship with Lucy, who’s misunderstood the situation and learn vulnerability as a friend and lover. It tackles relationships, sexuality and so many more important topics with honesty and a bit of fun, too, just like Sex Education. Meanwhile, she introduces her Armenian roommate, scholarship student Lucy Garabedian, to snobbish classmate Kenton Parker-who sexually assaults Elliot at an off-campus party. This book is about the first year of college. Well-meaning but unaware of her privilege, Elliot, who’s white and queer, immediately takes up a regimen of parties and sex upon arriving at university instead of homework and declaring a major, she nearly fails all her classes. Set at Boston’s Emerson College, it traces Elliot McHugh’s evolution from insecure and self-absorbed to assured and affectionate. ![]() Wood’s charming but uneven debut, a loose retelling of Austen’s Emma, is a sex-positive romp through freshman college life. ![]()
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