Privilege: A Novel - Softcover

A cutting satire concerning the death spiral of the white, male identity.

With his divorce nearly finalized, the surprise success of his freshman book on the wane, and his ill-advised affair with grad student Lara Kitts put to bed, Dr. Barker Samuel Stone is on the precipice of a cozy tenure-track existence. All in all, none too shabby for a straight, aware, upper-middle-class white dude, amirite?

Then an enigmatic e-mail sends Barker&;s life spiralling along an unanticipated trajectory. Summoned to a late-night confab at the campaign office of controversial mayoral candidate Baz Randell &; folk hero to some, populist blowhard to everyone else &; Barker is looped in on an epic, career-ending scandal.

In the midst of mounting chaos, Barker is informed that an anonymous complainant has levied a claim of sexual misconduct against him. Given the university&;s embarrassing record of botching cases of misconduct, Barker is advised that the administration is looking to bring the hammer down on someone &; anyone &; hard.

In his whole life, Barker has never before felt so much like a nail.