The scene is Denver, home of the mighty WesternUniversity and its warring faculty, presidedover by an ambitious president dreaming of tall, new buildings and by a hapless dean. When afemale instructor in the Womyn’s Studies course insults a male student and is insulted in turn(with a trans-general epithet ), thestudent is expelled by the hastily organizedundergraduate oversight board. Seeking justicefor the expelled student is Parker Thompson, the young, morally challenged star of the city’s top law firm, who struggles to advance his legalcareer - and save whatever is left of hissoul. Christopher Hill’s first novel is ascathing satire of academic hubris and adisturbing portait of American society graspingfor a moral compass in an age that has abandoned tradition. Hill’s voice, rising from the verybowels of the beast he is describing, is funny,incisive, fresh, and devastating.