With its ensemble of warm and unforgettable characters, The Faculty Lounge shows readers a different side of school life. It all starts when an elderly substitute teacher at Baldwin High School is found dead in the faculty lounge. After a bit of a stir, life quickly returns to normalits not like its the worst (or even most interesting) thing that has happened within the buildings walls. But when, a week later, the spontaneous scattering of his ashes on the school grounds catches the attention of some busybody parents, it sets in motion a year that can only be described as wild, bizarre, tragic, mundane, beautiful, and humorous all at once. In the midst of the ensuing hysteria and threats of disciplinary action, the novel peeks into the lives of the implicated adults who, it turns out, actually have first names and continue to exist when the school day is done. We meet a former punk band front man, now a middleaged principal who must battle it out with the schoolboard to keep his job a nononsense school nurse willing to break the rules, despite the close watch on their campus, when a student arrives at her office with a dilemma and a disgruntled English instructor who finds himself embroiled in even more controversy when he misfires a snarky email. Oh, and theres also a teacher make out session in a supply closet during a lockdown. As these people continue to manage the messiness of this school year, there is the looming threat of what will become of their beloved Baldwin...

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 342 g; Dimensions: 132 x 202 x 19

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