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    The Learning Curve: A Novel
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    The Learning Curve: A Novel
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    The Learning Curve: A Novel

    Written by Mandy Berman

    Narrated by Karissa Vacker

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    About this audiobook

    How are you supposed to be a good friend when you don’t even know who you’re supposed to be?

    Fiona and Liv are seniors at Buchanan College, a small liberal arts school in rural Pennsylvania. Fiona, who is still struggling emotionally after the death of her younger sister, is spending her final college year sleeping with abrasive men she meets in bars. Liv is happily coupled and on the fast track to marriage with an all-American frat boy. Both of their journeys, and their friendship, will be derailed by the relationships they develop with Oliver Ash, a ruggedly good-looking visiting literature professor whose first novel was published to great success when he was 26.

    But now Oliver is in his early 40s, with thinning hair and a checkered past, including talk of a relationship with an underage woman — a former student — at a previous teaching job. Meanwhile, Oliver’s wife, Simone, is pursuing an academic research project in Berlin, raising their five-year-old son, dealing with her husband’s absence, and wondering if their marriage is beyond repair.

    This sly, stunning, wise-beyond-its-years novel is told from the perspectives of the three women and showcases Mandy Berman’s talent for exploring the complexities of desire, friendship, identity, and power dynamics in the contemporary moment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 28, 2019
    ISBN9781984885227
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