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001			on1388317896
003			OCoLC
005			20240524151243.0
008			230710t20242024nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2023029364
020			_a9780063345393 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0063345390 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)on1388317896
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dERASA _dTOH _dOCO
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3569.H742 _bM365 2024
082	0	0	_a813/.54 _223/eng/20240710
100	1		_aShriver, Lionel, _eauthor. _9562
245	1	0	_aMania : _ba novel /
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHarperCollins, _c2024.
264		4	_c�2024
300			_a277 pages ; _c24 cm
520			_a"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirit in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can . . . until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes."--
650		0	_aWomen college teachers _vFiction.
650		0	_aPolitical correctness _vFiction. _9139889
650		0	_aFriendship _vFiction.
655		7	_aNovels _2fast
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft
655		7	_aRomans. _2rvmgf
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