The waters are roiled in a small New England college when a part-time professor takes up with her teaching assistant. In succinct, often somberly beautiful language, Brookhouse (Running Out, etc.) writes about a breast cancer survivor, Caroline, and her yearlong relationship with Gabe, a much younger man. Caroline, an adjunct English professor at a small college, has just recovered from a mastectomy when Gabe is assigned to be her assistant.
"Despite the winding course of events, plot is less important to this novel than Brookhouse's success at capturing Caroline's acute sensibility to the passing of seasons outside her rural home, made all the more vivid and poignant by her scrape with death."
