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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Standing in Doorways

Standing in Doorways

Payton, Wes

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1949180387
ISBN13: 9781949180381
Publisher: Adelaide Books
Published: Dec 6 2018
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Study House, begins in January of 1995 and is set on the campus of an elite, Midwestern university. The residents of Study House, a sobriquet for the dorm that is home to those who are receiving scholarships for various mental disorders so as to enhance the diversity of the school's student population, are returning from winter break and getting reacquainted at a mixer. A midyear transfer student, Vivian Lee (identified simply as he), wishes to change his room assignment, so he approaches Vivien Leigh (identified as she) in hopes that she might share the extra bed in her room with him.During their first conversation (chapter 1), they discuss their backgrounds. He is a homosexual with father issues from a small town, she describes herself as barely human and unable to read people. She goes on to describe other residents of Study House: a schizophrenic, a psychopath, a personality shifter, and a genius who is attempting reinvent the English language. The pair makes a deal-she will share her room if he teaches her to figure out what people are thinking. And the story goes...

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