Tampa by Alissa NuttingRead the other entries on the list.
Okay, Nutting’s controversial book is, in fact, about a teacher seducing a young student. But what’s so engaging about Tampa isn’t this scandal: It’s how, with keen details, the author portrays the intensity of obsession from a female perspective, a brilliant twist on Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert.
Tampa is also among Kristi Steffen's top five titles told from the perspective of an extremely disturbed individual you would never want to meet.
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