Professed: A Novel of Higher Education

Professed is a novel filled with the struggles and rivalries and oddities and many weirdnesses American higher education--favor-dodging ex-girlfriend avoiding grade-dreading plagiarist-busting dissertation-reading office-mate annoying litter-box spilling book-stealing unprofessional forbidden lusting unprofessional forbidden lusting-fulfilling lost cat-chasing wrist-breaking inopportune body-betraying boring boyfriend-dumping planning dead professor missing committee-meeting texting student misfiling classroom failing hidden Confederate-history uncovering book-writing student advising professional dysphoria-feeling drunk-tank loitering book discussion-leading unwise nasal behaving paper researching non-academic schooling sink fouling New Years kissing celebratory pool-playing stranger-disemboweling paper-writing attempting paper-writing failing drinking-game playing incompletetaking...yet as the characters fight to fit into a rapidly-changing institution medicating themselves as best they can with sex drugs and literature learning actually happens----Somehow.