A review by meghan111
You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik

3.0

Only the French could take the sordid story of a high school teacher's affair with his student and make it mostly about the essential meaninglessness of life. It made me want to read some Camus; the teacher's senior seminar on existentialism was integrated well into the rest of the tale. Told from three different perspectives, this novel is engaging, exotically Parisian, and a fast read about an international high school and the relationship between a teacher and student.