The principal, however, finds Shakespeare irrelevant. I’ve got to hand it to Elizabeth: she hates the high school job, but manages to make an impression on her students. (They threaten occasionally to take away her children.)Įlizabeth holds the family together: she teaches one English class for graduate students as a university adjunct, and is also a full-time teacher at a charter school where the impoverished Black students are underserved. Her rich parents give them no money – and she doesn’t want to take it, because they are such assholes. and a lovable husband who left his career to become a carpenter. The narrator, Elizabeth, is a quiet, likable 34-year-old teacher in New York, with a Ph.D. What happens to people who opt out of the system to work at untraditional jobs? This novel is about the economy. It deals with two kinds of want: poverty and the want of love. After reading a review in The Nation of two novels about adjuncts, I picked up a copy of Lynn Steger Strong’s stunning novel, Want.
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