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Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko: Vita Nostra (Paperback, 2019, HarperVoyager)

"While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov …

creepy magic of higher education

Interplay of subtle and disturbing otherworldly moments to capture so recognizably the transition from high school to college and the variety of struggles to grasp advanced subjects' - maybe math, maybe language, maybe psychology or sociology - beauty and explanatory power.