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Also by Julie Schumacher:

Patient, Female, May 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The English Experience, August 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Dear Committee Members, August 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE
By: Julie Schumacher

Doubleday
August 2023
On Sale: August 15, 2023
240 pages
ISBN: 038555012X
EAN: 9780385550123
Kindle: B0BMKLSRCT
Hardcover / e-Book
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Literature and Fiction | Fiction

Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he’s the only professor available to chaperone Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” (he has long been on the record objecting to the absurd and gratuitous colon between the words) occurring during the three weeks of winter term. Among his charges are a claustrophobe with a juvenile detention record, a student who erroneously believes he is headed for the Caribbean, a pair of unreconciled lovers, a set of undifferentiated twins, and one young woman who has never been away from her cat before.

Through a sea of troubles—personal, institutional, and international—the gimlet-eyed, acid-tongued Fitger strives to navigate safe passage for all concerned, revealing much about the essential need for human connection and the sometimes surprising places in which it is found.