Mi último año de inocencia

It's 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side Jewish snack shop owner, has one semester left at Wilder College, a prestigious New Hampshire high school. Desperate to shed her working-class roots and mourning the death of her mother four years ago, Isabel has always felt like an outsider in Wilder, but now she thinks she's finally found her place... until an encounter Nonconsensual sexual intercourse with one of the only Jewish students on campus leaves her shaken. On the other hand, R. H. Connelly, a once-famous poet and Isabel's writing teacher, is a man with secrets of his own. Connelly makes Isabel feel wanted, beautiful and talented - the woman he longs to become. The trust he places in her ignites a trust in the young woman herself, and they both plunge headlong into a love affair that shakes the foundations of Isabel's life, for better or worse. As the lives of the adults around her gradually crumble, Isabel discovers that the line between youth and adulthood is less defined than she thought.