Taranto is a former lawyer armed with an intellect that can argue both sides of any issue, attributes that are evident in his debut novel. Here, a billionaire opens a college for canceled and exiled professors without strings. Our hero is a woman who must make a choice: follow her disgraced professor (he does something bad) and continue her work on high-temperature superconductivity, or give up on her dream of solving climate change. The book is about the choices we make in life and speaks to this moment of moral equivalence we live in.

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