Allegra Goodman, "The Chalk Artist"
August 7, 2017
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as posted by the channelGoodman’s eighth novel is a deft interweaving of different worlds, different realities, and different sorts of quests. The heart of the book is Nina, a young high school teacher struggling to connect with her students, especially the talented but distracted Aidan. An avid virtual reality game player, Aidan is easily manipulated by the forces of a new game called Arkadia and crosses several lines. Can Nina, the daughter of Arkadia’s founder, bring him back to the ordinary reality of high school? Meanwhile, she falls in love with an artist and introduces him to her father, who hires him to draw for the game. As she did in The Cookbook Collector and Intuition
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