02490cam a2200373 i 4500 623825630 TxAuBib 20200407120000.0 191011s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019046959 9781432876586 large print; hardcover 1432876589 large print; hardcover (OCoLC)1123182111 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda DLC rda OCLCO rda DLC OCLCF T3Q OCLCO BKL KSL IUK TXKPL TxAuBib OCLCO OCLCF T3Q OCLCO BKL KSL IUK TXKPL TxAuBib rda Lerner, Ben, 1979-, author. The Topeka School / By Ben Lerner. Large print edition. Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020. 459 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart--who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father's patient--into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane's reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan's marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men"-- Provided by publisher. 20200407. High school students Fiction. Families Fiction. Psychologists Fiction. Men Conduct of life Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Large type book. Domestic fiction. Fiction. TXKPL