num_pages: 256
description: Professor Susan Lowell has it made. A happily married mother of two in a tenure-track job at Harvard, she has just won a Pulitzer Prize for her book lionizing Hatashil, an East African freedom fighter. David Ayan is her singular Somali-born student. He is trying to become a member of one of Harvard€™s elite finals clubs. He is trying to understand Jane, his girlfriend from a privileged background. He is trying, sometimes, just to get by in a foreign place. Michael Teak is a twenty-five-year-old recent Harvard grad working as an American intelligence operative who meets Hatashil in David€™s village minutes before the massacre that will upend all their lives. Nick McDonell€™s third novel takes his readers into Harvard€”through its dormitories and dining halls, into its elite finals clubs and lecture halls, and within the offices of its ambitious professors€”giving us an incredibly authentic insider€™s view of this illustrious university. A powerful portra
language: English
title: An Expensive Education
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press