Devil and Webster [Paperback] Korelitz, Jean Hanff

Naomi Roth has dedicated her life to Webster College — first as a student radical, now as its first female president. She's spent decades balancing progressive ideals with institutional reality, navigating donor lunches and student protests with equal care. Then a student occupation erupts on the quad, led by a charismatic activist who refuses to leave until Webster confronts its problematic past. What starts as a familiar campus standoff spirals into something far more personal when Naomi discovers her own daughter is involved, and the protestor's demands hit closer to home than anyone expected. Jean Hanff Korelitz writes with razor-sharp intelligence about the contradictions of liberal academia, the impossible position of leadership, and how quickly conviction can curdle into fanaticism. A campus novel for adults who understand that nothing about education, politics, or parenting is ever simple.