In this story, adult Jo is looking back on her teenage self and the trauma she experienced, and it brings up the #metoo movement and hidden illicit affairs. Jo’s best friend dies in a horrible accident, after which our narrator goes to boarding school, where she finds herself growing closer and closer to her 34-year-old English teacher, becoming his “favorite.”
It’s a simultaneously appealing and disturbing bond, and it opens the door to a singularly complex story.
