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FOSTER DADE EXPLORES THE COSMOS

By Nash Jenkins

A transfer to a New Jersey boarding school falls in with two social heavy hitters and gets expelled. The student who moves into his old dorm room tries to figure out why. This debut novel by a Northwestern doctoral candidate

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