NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died comes 'a thorny examination of power, lust, shame and rage' (Los Angeles Times) from 'a writer able to capture some of the darkest parts of human nature with unflinching honesty and devastating humor' (NPR) 'Unapologetic and undeniable . . . If there was ever any doubt whether the narrative command that Jennette McCurdy displayed in her bestselling memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died might translate to fiction, let it henceforth be put to rest.'--Elle Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things