My Education: From the Women's Prize Shortlisted author of Flashlight

Susan Choi

Jun 2026 · Random House

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This summer, meet Regina Gottlieb as she becomes entangled with a magnetic professor – and his volatile wife...

‘A raw, wild, hurtling foray into the tangled realms of sexuality’ Jennifer Egan

‘Fantastic... I wanted to read it all the time’ Meg Wolitzer

In the heat of September, and the heady rush of starting her graduate degree, Regina Gottlieb is entranced by her controversial professor Nicholas Brodeur. Against all advice, she becomes embroiled in his world, only to betray him in a passionate love affair with his charismatic, volatile wife.

This is the story of Regina’s mistakes, which begin in the bedroom and end – if they do – fifteen years in the future and thousands of miles away.

‘A book that fulfils all the promise of a long, hot summer’ New York Magazine

‘Smart and witty...so delicious’ Washington Post

‘Surprised me and thrilled me’ The New Yorker

‘An amazing book’ Michael Cunningham

This summer, meet Regina Gottlieb as she becomes entangled with a magnetic professor – and his volatile wife... ‘A raw, wild, hurtling foray into the tangled realms of sexuality’ Jennifer Egan ‘Fantastic... I wanted to read it all the time’ Meg Wolitzer In the heat of September, and the heady ru...

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Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Flashlight began as a short story and received the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Susan Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, an...

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