The Devil and Webster

✍ Scribed by Korelitz, Jean Hanff

• Book ID: 109906185
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 197 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781455592395

✦ Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission , a twisty new novel about a college president, a baffling student protest, and some of the most hot-button issues on today's college campuses. Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing fired-up, progressive graduates. So Naomi isn't surprised or unduly alarmed when Webster students begin the fall semester with an outdoor encampment around "The Stump"-a traditional campus gathering place for generations of student activists-to protest a popular professor's denial of tenure. A former student radical herself, Naomi admires the protestors' passion, especially when her own daughter, Hannah, joins their ranks. Then Omar Khayal, a charismatic Palestinian student with a devastating personal history, emerges as the group's leader, and the demonstration begins to consume Naomi's life,...