01905cam a2200373 i 4500 350946822 TxAuBib 20180711120000.0 180320s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017054671 9781631494130 1631494139 (OCoLC)1029056281 FMG eng rda FMG FMG TnLvILS TxAuBib rda Mcallister, Tom. How to be safe : a novel / Tom McAllister. First edition. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2018] 232 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice at home when she is shocked to see herself named on television as a suspect in a shooting at the school where she works. Though she is quickly exonerated, and the actual teenage murderer identified, her life is nevertheless held up for relentless scrutiny and judgment as this quiet town descends into media mania. Gun sales skyrocket, victims are transformed into martyrs, and the rules of public mourning are ruthlessly enforced. Anna decides to wholeheartedly reject the culpability she's somehow been assigned, and the rampant sexism that comes with it, both in person and online"--Amazon.com. 20180711. Life change events Fiction. Teachers Fiction. Women teachers Fiction. School violence Fiction. School shootings Fiction. Sexism Fiction. City and town life Fiction. Black humor. Satirical literature.