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Fraternity—specifically Delta Tau Chi, a frat house on the verge of being banned from the school. Accused of offensive, sexist behavior, they have one year to clean up their act.
With one shot at a scholarship to the school of her dreams, Cassie pitches an unusual research project—to pledge Delta Tau Chi, take on the boys' club and provide proof of their misogynistic behavior. It's different, but it's not against the rules, and she's pretty sure she knows exactly what to expect once she gets there. Which means the DTC brothers will have to face the dreaded F-word...
Feminist—the type of girl who thinks they're nothing but tank-top-wearing "bros" and is determined to see them booted from the school.
But Cassie soon realizes things aren't as simple as they appeared. Some of the DTC brothers, including her fellow pledge, Jordan Louis, are much more than she ever expected to find in a frat house. With her academic future on the line, and her heart all tangled in a web of her own making, Cassie will ultimately have to define for herself what the F-word is all about.
"Refreshingly honest and intelligently written."
—New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller Julie Cross
"[This] sweet, subversive deconstruction of frats and feminism...will have readers sighing and snorting at Cassie's adventure into fraternity life and finding her own truth."
—Christa Desir, award-winning author of Bleed Like Me and Other Broken Things
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March 27, 2018 -
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Kindle Book
- ISBN: 9781488015434
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781488015434
- File size: 491 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781488015434
- File size: 491 KB
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- English
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March 15, 2018
What happens when you let a feminist into a frat house? Cassandra Davis is about to find out. When Cassandra's conservative, working-class Midwestern parents--who don't see the value in a woman's getting a college degree--are unable to pay the tuition for her dream school in California, she applies for and receives a full-ride scholarship on the basis of her research proposal: an undercover study of Delta Tau Chi, a fraternity plagued by accusations of sexism. At first Cassie is thrilled about the idea of taking the organization down, but after becoming the first successful female pledge in the American fraternity's history, she finds that her frat brothers are not all villains--in fact, many of them are capable of change. In her debut novel, Roache has created a narrator with a strong, relatable voice as well as a cast of nuanced characters full of pleasant surprises and believable personal growth. However, her prose often slips into the didactic, referencing theory dominated by white feminist icons ranging from Lena Dunham to Andrea Dworkin and Tina Fey. Mentions of the global South disappointingly rely on a victim mentality that oversimplifies women's struggles there, and her portrayal of working-class families feels condescending. The few characters of color in the book are two-dimensional.Blind spots around race, culture, and class distract from an otherwise thoughtful, entertaining, and politically relevant coming-of-age story. (Fiction. 16-adult)COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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