They meet up in secret car rides that happen after school, at Jack’s house while his father works late, a single parent, and steamy hook ups in the empty classroom that she teaches in between periods. This is also important because they are going to be meeting frequently. But there’s more to the arrangement working out than just a student being into her she needs a boy who is going to agree to the many extremely important terms of their relationship, the first of which being that their relationship remains a total secret. She chooses the naive and innocent Jack Patrick, a student who she can tell is enthralled with his teacher. High with a fresh batch of students enrolled for the new year.Ĭeleste wastes no time in finding a new insect to draw into her web. Tampa opens with Celeste starting a new year with the fall semester beginning at Jefferson Jr. She gets to work and get a paycheck but her real reason for becoming a teacher is to give herself access to the objects of her compulsion. She goes about satisfying her desire with a sociopathic attention to detail that is all too perfect her forethought into becoming a teacher is no accident.Ĭeleste gets to fulfill her passion as well as live in a world where her position is unquestioned. Her singular obsession is a sexual web as she craves fourteen-year-old boys. However, the truth is that her mind and her thoughts focus on something that isn’t exactly socially acceptable. While Celeste seemingly has the perfect husband, the perfect job, the perfect car and the perfect life, with a well-liked and respected position in the community. They live a nice life together and you could call them rich, as Celeste Price drives a red Corvette that has tinted windows, a must if you’re going to be living and driving in Florida.
She is married to her husband Ford, who is a square-jawed manly man who works in the police force who is devoted to her. She is twenty-six years of age and works as an English teacher teaching students in the eighth grade in the suburban Tampa district. The main character of Tampa is Celeste Price. She lives in Ohio with her daughter, husband, and two dogs. Her second novel is titled Made for Love and was published in 2017. Her first novel was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2013 and is called Tampa. She is an assistant professor in creative writing as well as English literature at John Carroll University. Alissa Nutting’s short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls was published in 2010 by Starcheron/Dzanc and it won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. She has also penned essays that have appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, Fence, and more. Her fiction has appeared in many publications such as Bomb, Conduit, Tin House, and The Norton Introduction to Literature. Alissa Nutting is an American author of fiction.
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