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In the E. Carol Award–winning writer of the story collection The Bostons—a New York Times Notable Book, L A Times Book of the Entire Year and winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers—a beautiful first novel set in a disintegrating New England preparation school.It’s 1968. The exclusive but cash strapped Goode College in the city of Cape Wilde is run by its ageing, philandering headmaster, Goddard Byrd, recognized to both his friends and his foes as God. With Cape Wilde surrounded by the cultural and political storms of incorporation, coeducation and the sexual revolution, Lord has confidently guaranteed coeducation “over my lifeless body.” And then, via a clerical error, the Goode College admits its first female pupil: Carole Faust, an excellent, intractable fifteen-year-old dark girl.What does it mean to function as the First Lady?