ASIN: B0084JQ7ZG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Pages: 334
THE BEAR STRATEGY is the story of Sarah Peele, the author of an imploding dissertation and a soon-to-be fired college teaching assistant who is charged with sexual misconduct because of a “wrong” kiss. When all else fails, Sarah finds herself traveling Europe and working as an assistant for the slightly failed but still famous novelist, Abbie Feldman. Dumped by her long-time boyfriend and cast into academic disgrace, Sarah must grapple with her dissertation about the novels by John Irving as well as her past--the father who fled, the mother who grieved, the wild sister who graduated from high school and never came back.For most of her life, Sarah hid from the world in books and ideas, basing her actions on characters in her favorite novels, especially those by Irving. She thought she had everything down pat, but now nothing makes sense. Told by her advisor that “despair and failure are ...
