First published 1999
Samantha Flint packs her bags and leaves the Midwest behind. She wants to forget what came before and build something new at Smith College. The plan works at first. Sam moves from city to city, climbing higher with each move. Money comes. Power follows. She gets what she thought she wanted. But success feels different than she imagined. The future she worked so hard to create starts working against her. What she reaches for slips away just as her fingers close around it. Sam discovers that running from your past and chasing your dreams can lead to the same empty place. The higher she climbs, the further she falls from what actually matters.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, american-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Midwest, Smith College
Period: 21st-century
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