{"product_id":"the-adjunct-maria-adelmann-9781668089972","title":"The Adjunct","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of How to Be Eaten, a \"darkly funny, deeply incisive\" (Booklist) take on the campus novel that follows a woman on the edge gigging her way through academia's poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser, whose new novel might be about her.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2026 * \"Tense...Witty...Impeccably written.\" -Glamour, Best Books for Book Clubs 2026 * \"A unicorn...Truly thought-provoking.\" -Bustle, Best New Books of March\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSam, an adjunct professor at a public university in Baltimore, takes a last-minute position at the private liberal arts college down the road. Overworked and underpaid, she lives in a blur of back-to-back classes, side hustles, and job applications for an ever-dwindling number of tenure-track jobs. Her already precarious existence is thrown into disarray when she runs into her former grad school adviser, Dr. Tom Sternberg, on campus.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eTom and Sam have a complicated history, and it's the last thing she wants to think about as she navigates academic politics, institutional hurdles, and romantic entanglements with men and women that further complicate a sexuality not even she can define. Then she learns that Tom left his old job for undisclosed reasons-and his long-awaited second novel is about a professor reckoning with his checkered past. As rumors spread that Sam is the inspiration behind a central character, she fights to regain control of the story.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eAn \"entertaining, provocative\" (Brooklyn Rail) look at how hustle culture has come to define modern academia, The Adjunct offers a bold twist on a tangled MeToo story and turns Sam's downward spiral into a searing critique of class and the hollow promises of the American dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maria Adelmann","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50758062538995,"sku":"9781668089972","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781668089972.jpg?v=1788293916","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-adjunct-maria-adelmann-9781668089972","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}