Student/Teacher

by Timothy Chisholm

Genres: Literary Fiction; Small Town & Rural

Synopsis

A burned-out teacher must choose between his career and his conscience.

An invisible student discovers the cost of being seen.

A gun on campus shatters the routine of Washoe High School in rural Oregon, forcing teachers and students alike to confront fear, loyalty, and the limits of authority. As a lockdown unfolds, a student teacher makes a fateful choice, and a small group of teens steps into danger—and into adulthood.

Literary fiction that examines school violence through multiple perspectives while refusing easy answers, Student/Teacher is a novel about school violence told from inside a public high school—not as spectacle, but as lived experience.

Told through alternating perspectives and grounded in the lived reality of public education, Student/Teacher is a compassionate, unsentimental portrait of adolescence, authority, and quiet heroism. It asks what we owe one another when rules fail, when fear takes over, and when the cost of doing the right thing is higher than anyone expects.

Release date: November 12, 2024

Publisher: Timothy Chisholm

Print pages: 306