White Mike is a loner and an anomaly: he doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, and he never uses drugs. Set in Manhattan between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, from the housing projects of Harlem to the penthouses of Park Avenue, it is the story of White Mike, a seventeen year old prep school dropout turned drug dealer, and his privileged peers.
This is not a coming of age novel because these kids never had a childhood rather it is a rare look into a sealed world rendered with authority and wit. Now comes a novel for the new millennium Twelve, a chilling chronicle of urban adolescence that has already created an international sensation. A powerful portrait of personalities all ensnared in the African conflict and of the Harvard campus on which the debate takes place, An Expensive Education is a smart, relentless novel set at the troubled intersection of ivory academia and realpolitik.From The Catcher in the Rye, to The Basketball Diaries, to Less than Zero, there have been books that captured the soul of a generation. Nick McDonell's third novel takes his readers into Harvard?through its dormitories and dining halls, into its elite finals clubs and lecture halls, and within the offices of its ambitious professors?giving us an incredibly authentic insider?s view of this illustrious university. Michael Teak is a twenty-five-year-old recent Harvard grad working as an American intelligence operative who meets Hatashil in David?s village minutes before the massacre that will upend all their lives. He is trying, sometimes, just to get by in a foreign place. He is trying to understand Jane, his girlfriend from a privileged background. He is trying to become a member of one of Harvard's elite finals clubs. David Ayan is her singular Somali-born student.
A happily married mother of two in a tenure-track job at Harvard, she has just won a Pulitzer Prize for her book lionizing Hatashil, an East African freedom fighter.
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