Ira ***** rated it it was amazing
Working in a university comes sugar-coated with imageries of benevolence and paternalism, all benefits included, and equality and diversity are presented as the passcode for making it a success. An ethos of care and looking after one another pursuing the good of knowledge science objectivity and justice permeates every pore of the beautiful architecture of these high-standing institutions. Except universities are anything but the image they project.
Nepotism, the barely-concealed incompetence of bullies, nasty personal vendettas, racism, and a pernicious middle-class superiority complex mixed with their fear of being exposed as the fraud they are creates toxic environments for those who come from outside and will be only tolerated as outsiders, and for that they must also bow and kneel and never dare asking for their fair share of anything.
In Almost, Violet says no. And more.
Beautifully told, both sad and funny, this is the story of people on the verge who try, fail and try differently to make something of their circumstances, however unfavorable. A must read!