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THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE - TARA ISABELLA BURTON GE...

The Secret History meets The Price of Salt (Vogue) in this equal parts dangerous and delicious
(Entertainment Weekly) novel about queer desire  religious zealotry  and the hunger for
transcendence among the members of a cultic chapel choir at a Maine boarding school?and the
ambitious  terrifyingly charismatic girl that rules over them. When shy  sensitive Laura
Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan's Academy in Maine  she dreams that life there will echo her
favorite novel  All Before Them  the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic prep school
prophet (and St. Dunstan's alum) Sebastian Webster  who died at nineteen  fighting in the
Spanish Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among the insular 
Webster-worshipping members of the school's chapel choir  which is presided over by the
charismatic  neurotic  overachiever Virginia Strauss. Virginia is as fanatical about her
newfound Christian faith as she is about the miles she runs every morning before dawn. She
expects nothing short of perfection from herself?and from the member of the choir. Virginia
inducts the besotted Laura into a world of transcendent music and arcane ritual  illicit
cliff-diving and midnight crypt visits: a world that  like Webster's novels  finally seems to
Laura to be full of meaning. But when a new school chaplain challenges Virginia's hold on the
family she has created  and Virginia's efforts to wield her power become increasingly dangerous
Laura must decide how far she will let her devotion to Virginia go. The World Cannot Give is a
hypnotic and intense (Shondaland) meditation on the power  and danger  of wanting more from the
world.

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