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This book may be well written or have various admirable literary qualities but every reader should know when they start reading it that it is based on a true story. Alexander Maksik was a teacher at the American School of Paris and was released in 2006 after having an affair with a student. I was a student at ASP at the time and remember the scandal. To highly rate this book or even buy it is on some level acknowledging or approving that what this man did was acceptable. It was not. The student was underage and the affair was highly inappropriate. Please do not mistake the contents of the novel for a creative story by a deep and thoughtful author but a true story by a former teacher who finds it appropriate to sleep with his underage students.