Contributed by
"William E. Emba"
A highly praised mother-daughter novel, selected by Oprah, and
recently produced by Oprah as a made-for-TV movie.
Set in 1971 Maine, a 16-year-old girl has an affair with her
high school math teacher. The attraction begins when the
teacher gets frustrated with his class's lack of interest,
and chides them for not responding to the inherent beauty,
and the girl spontaneously quotes the first line of "Euclid
alone".
(Unread/unseen by me, but there seems to be no mathematical
content beyond the one bit, gleaned from bookstore skimming.)
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