The Ghost Apple Read By Aaron Thier
| Title | : | The Ghost Apple |
| Author | : | Aaron Thier |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 304 pages |
| ISBN | : | 162040527X |
Every college I looked at, the students were like, Whoa, this place is awesome Then I came to Tripoli and everyone was like, I don t know You get used to it It s not so bad So I thought I might as well come here Adam Longman, Class of 2011Tripoli College is a humble New England institution Originally founded as a free school for Native Americans, it is now bes Every college I looked at, the students were like, Whoa, this place is awesome Then I came to Tripoli and everyone was like, I don t know You get used to it It s not so bad So I thought I might as well come here Adam Longman, Class of 2011Tripoli College is a humble New England institution Originally founded as a free school for Native Americans, it is now beset by financial problems and so has entered into an increasingly troubling financial relationship with a snack food corporation Big Anna deposes the college president, uses the campus as a testing ground for their latest dietary and mood additive, and creates a field studies program in the Caribbean, where students in the literal field soon learn the true price of their Human Power Technology practices.Set amidst this madness is a quasi love story, between Bill Brees, a dean going undercover as a student, utterly bemused by how things have changed since his undergrad days, and Maggie, an African American student startled into the realization that maybe nothing changes at all The Ghost Apple is told through a wealth of documents tourism pamphlets, course catalogs, blog posts, historical letters, and slave narratives Slowly, they reveal the extent of Tripoli s current crisis, and highlight those larger crises of genocide, slavery, ignorance and indifference on which the college and the nation were founded and on which we continue to subsist
about Author
Aaron Thier was born in Balti and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he now lives with his wife His writing has appeared in The Nation and The New Republic, among other places This is his first novel.
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Published :2016-03-13T14:46+01:00
Every college I looked at, the students were like, Whoa, this place is awesome Then I came to Tripoli and everyone was like, I don t know You get
304 pagesAaron Thier
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