The Vivisectors

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by nature, where power is held in a fragile balance between academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, the reclusive narrator of The Vivisectors spends her days propping up the career of her needy and fraudulent professor boss. Then a controversy ruptures her careful routine: Adam, a contrarian student and an obsession of the boss’s, comes into heated conflict with a young professor, with both men claiming discrimination. The crisis subsumes t