On a recent day, Tish Labaree was visiting the library from Connecticut.

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So it only makes sense that he met Jim and Tish Buss on a beach.

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Tish's acute sensibility, belonging and not belonging to both sides, gives us a world of battle lines, elites and exclusions and an atmosphere as intensely painful, embarrassing, and funny, as only school can make it.

ECONOMIST: First novels