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With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. Roxane Gay is the author of the essay collection Bad Feminist, which was a New York Times bestseller the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize the memoir Hunger, which was a New York Times bestseller and received a National Book Critics Circle citation and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti.