The Topeka school / Ben Lerner.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780374277789Subject(s): High school students -- Kansas -- Topeka -- Fiction | Teenage boys -- Fiction | Women authors -- Fiction | Psychologists -- Fiction | Families -- Kansas -- Topeka -- Fiction | Nineteen nineties -- Fiction | Topeka (Kan.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Bildungsromans. | Social problem fiction. DDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3612.E68 | T63 2019Summary: "Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting 'lost boys' to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. When a group of seniors bring loner Darren Eberheart into the social scene, Adam is unaware that Darren is one of his father's patients. When a disastrous event occurs, Adam feels partly responsible"--Provided by publisher.
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"Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting 'lost boys' to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. When a group of seniors bring loner Darren Eberheart into the social scene, Adam is unaware that Darren is one of his father's patients. When a disastrous event occurs, Adam feels partly responsible"--Provided by publisher.
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