MyDarkVanessa

In 2000, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye, bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, finds herself entangled in an affair with her forty-two-year-old English teacher, Jacob Strane, who is magnetic and guileful.

Fast forward to 2017, amidst the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student who reaches out to Vanessa. And now...

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2000.Bright,ambitious,andyearningforadulthood,fifteen-year-oldVanessaWyebecomesentangledinanaffairwithJacobStrane,hermagneticandguilefulforty-two-year-oldEnglishteacher.2017.Amidtherisingwaveofallegationsagainstpowerfulmen,areckoningiscomingdue.Stranehasbeenaccusedofsexualabusebyaformerstudent,whoreachesouttoVanessa,andnowVanessasuddenlyfindsherselffacinganimpossiblechoice:remainsilent,firminthebeliefthatherteenageselfwillinglyengagedinthisrelationship,orredefineherselfandtheeventsofherpast.ButhowcanVanessarejectherfirstlove,themanwhofundamentallytransformedherandhasbeenapersistentpresenceinherlife?Isitpossiblethatthemanshelovedasateenager—andwhoprofessedtoworshiponlyher—maybefardifferentfromwhatshehasalwaysbelieved?AlternatingbetweenVanessa’spresentandherpast,MyDarkVanessajuxtaposesmemoryandtraumawiththebreathlessexcitementofateenagegirldiscoveringthepowerherownbodycanwield.Thought-provokingandimpossibletoputdown,thisisamasterfulportrayaloftroubledadolescenceanditsrepercussionsthatraisesvitalquestionsaboutagency,consent,complicity,andvictimhood.WrittenwiththehauntingintimacyofTheGirlsandthecreepingintensityofRoom,MyDarkVanessaisanera-definingnovelthatbrilliantlycapturesandreflectstheshiftingculturalmorestransformingourrelationshipsandsocietyitself.