Schooling (Paperback)

From the Publisher: Sent to an English boarding school after her mother's death from cancer, Catrine Evans, a young American, finds herself an outsider, ridiculed for her American accent, tormented by memories of the past, and confronting new feelings, desires, and hopes, in a stream-of-consciousness novel that explores the links between language and reality.Heather McGowan’s widely praised first novel introduces a literary artist of consummate skill, and a narrative voice of astonishing sensitivity and sensuousness. Tracking every mercurial shift of her character’s consciousness, the result is dreamy, disquieting, and achingly alive. Schooling is a portrait of an adolescent girl, thirteen-year-old Catrine Evans, who following her mother’s death is uprooted from her home in America to an English boarding school. There she encounters classmates who sniff glue and engage in arson and instructors who make merciless fun of her accent. She also finds the sympathetic chemistry teacher Mr. Gilbert, who offers Catrine the friendship she so desperately wants–a friendship that gradually takes on sinister and obsessive overtones.Sent to an English boarding school after her mother's death from cancer, Catrine Evans, a young American, finds herself an outsider, ridiculed for her American accent, tormented by memories of the past, and confronting new feelings, desires, and hopes, in a stream-of-consciousness novel that explores the links between language and reality. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.