A gifted teacher. A career-ending accident. Can he find redemption in the Rubber Room?STUDENT GIVES TEACHER THE FINGER, screams thePostheadline after Patrick Lynch slams his classroom door on the hand of Josh Mishkin. Joshs injury casts Patrick, thirty-year-old son of the Midwest, down a New York City rabbit hole of Board of Ed bureaucracy and union politics. Transformed into an unwilling celebrity by his fellow inmates in that teacher purgatory, the Rubber Room, Mr. Lynch is suddenly more at risk than any of his students.
Now he must fight his way back to his classroom at Marcus Garvey High School and reclaim the affections of his social worker fiancée, all while wrestling the legend of his late father, Superintendent Lynch, the pride of Peterson’s Prairie, Minnesota. For readers who enjoy literary fiction with a satirical edge,Class Dismissedexplores the triumphs and tragedies of teaching in urban America.
Class Dismissedis pitch-perfect and elegantly plotted. That would be enough happiness for a reader--but it's also very funny. Not to mention harrowing. And, of this moment. Patrick Lynch practicing the art of teaching is heroic in a way that illuminates why teaching is a calling and indeed an art. This book is a joy." —Jane Hamilton, author ofThe Book of RuthandA Map of the World
"Kevin M. McIntosh’sClass Dismissedis competing for The Great School Novel title, alongside classics such as Kingsley Amis’sLucky Jimand Bel Kaufman’sUp the Down Staircase. McIntosh writes with humor and a sardonic appreciation of life’s all-too-expected travails. InClass Dismissed, the world tries to teach Patrick Lynch a lesson. He proves to be as apt a pupil as he is a successful teacher." — Alex Beam, Boston Globe
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