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The professor is a volunteer who leads a book discussion group at the medium-security facility where Jonathan Alkaitis is imprisoned. He exclusively focuses on the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, though the group one day discusses the fable of the swan that was frozen in a pond, which takes Alkaitis back to memories from his childhood.
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Chapter 12: The Counterlife
Alkaitis’s story ends, and the narrative picks up in the present, in prison. The professor who runs the book club sets aside the usual Fitzgerald reading assignments to discuss an...
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