Volume 50, Number 20 · December 18, 2003
Unsentimental Education
By Thomas R. Edwards
The Book of Hard Things
by Sue Halpern
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 228 pp., $22.00
Sue Halpern's remarkable first novel, like many novels, is essentially about education, or that aspect of education called growing up. But the book's main character must, in effect, grow up all at once, and the story suggests that education happens not because of anything that teachers do but because certain students want, or are willing, or somehow manage to learn, much to everyone's surprise.
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