![]() ![]() Nell literally spends much of her time wandering around campus waiting to find a way back in-waiting for Joan to offer a solution, or even just for someone to drop their library entrance pass so Nell can swipe in. She has only ever understood herself as a student and-perhaps equally and simultaneously-as someone entirely devoted to Joan. Nell’s graduate program was cancelled when her fellow student researcher died from exposure to a deadly toxin, so perhaps Nell hasn’t done anything wrong to deserve expulsion, but it’s been difficult lately to do anything right, either. And her notebooks are filled more with obsessive devotions directed at Professor Joan Kallas than with progress on her antidotes. This research has been unconventional lately, because she’s studying deadly poisonous plants in her apartment, not a laboratory. Amidst the cataclysm of Nell Barber’s expulsion from her graduate level biology program, Nell is determined to continue her research and keeps meticulous notes. ![]() In her sophomore novel, Hex, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight delivers a thesis on love and poison as if they are one and the same. ![]()
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