PrivilegeFrom the beloved author of When You Read This, a smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class on a contemporary Southern college campus in the spirit of The Female Persuasion and Prep. Carter University: The Harvard of the South. Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that shes at Carter, it feels like shes got Scholarship Student written on her forehead. Bea Powers put aside misgivings about

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bringing healing and hope in the present life

But what happens when your heart is 117 and a half miles away

an impetuous

she reminds us that being chubby doesn’t mean you’ll end up alone

Her enemies come at her like ghosts in a dream

Domestic violence

the 2016 election and Trump’s subsequent hold on the GOP

Is Soros simply a left-wing version of the Koch brothers

Praise for If There’s No Tomorrow:

and brutal honesty

with whom she lived after her mother passed away