She is the author of a previous novel, The Sunlit Night, and a poetry collection, Lofoten. Rebecca Dinerstein Knight earned her BA from Yale and MFA from New York University. “Hex is sexy, unhinged, revelatory, so smart it gives the reader whiplash,” writes Julie Buntin. All six characters collide in this spellbinding campus novel-spinning a tale of poison, antidote, and emotional intensity. Joan Kallas, and finds herself trapped in a web of grudges and obsessions that includes Joan, Joan’s husband, her ex, her best friend, and the best friend’s boyfriend. As Nell’s apartment fills with her deadly specimens, her social life is also becoming increasingly complicated. But one PhD candidate, Nell Barber, is compelled to continue her deceased peer’s work she steals materials on her last afternoon and set outs, independently, to break the speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. When a Columbia University student dies from toxic exposure in the course of her research, the school expels the remaining members of the lab. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, whose second novel, Hex, is out today from Viking.
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