Heather McGowan is een Amerikaanse schrijfster wiens werk zich verdiept in de complexiteit van de menselijke ervaring. Haar stilistisch verfijnde proza onthult vaak verborgen karakter-motivaties en maatschappelijke nuances. McGowan onderzoekt thema's als identiteit, volwassenwording en de zoektocht naar betekenis in de moderne wereld. Haar romans onderscheiden zich door hun inzichtelijke observaties en een originele benadering van storytelling.
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Heather McGowan’s widely praised first novel introduces a literary artist of consummate skill, and a narrative voice of astonishing sensitivity and sensuousness. Tracking every mercurial shift of her character’s consciousness, the result is dreamy, disquieting, and achingly alive. Schooling is a portrait of an adolescent girl, thirteen-year-old Catrine Evans, who following her mother’s death is uprooted from her home in America to an English boarding school. There she encounters classmates who sniff glue and engage in arson and instructors who make merciless fun of her accent. She also finds the sympathetic chemistry teacher Mr. Gilbert, who offers Catrine the friendship she so desperately wants–a friendship that gradually takes on sinister and obsessive overtones.