Double Take & Night Class | Granta

  • Published: 02/05/2013
  • ISBN: 9781846275210
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Double Take & Night Class

Jessica Francis Kane

In Night Class, a teacher develops a unique way to teach the meaning of parentheses, while in Double Take, a promising young lawyer’s suicide forces his former Yale roommate and his aging mother together for a meal that will echo through the rest of their lives.

The Author

Jessica Francis Kane is the author of Rules for Visiting and The Report (both published by Granta). She is also the author of two story collections, Bending Heaven (Chatto & Windus, 2003) and This Close (Graywolf, 2013). She lives in New York City.

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