I'm loving the structure of the book:

• a modern campus novel exploring adjunct life, overworked underpaid, the vanishing dreamworld of academia, class disparities, the lack of barrier between "the campus" and the real world because it simply doesn't work like that these days
• as part of this campus novel, our protagonist adjunct (who once would have been a male tenured professor) is teaching a course on The Campus Novel, giving us glimpses into the patterns and tropes of the very genre the book itself deconstructs and interrogates
• alongside that runs the plot thread about her old advisor's book, this one in the familiar vein of "professor has an affair with a student" but attempting a "progressive" lens in the light of the MeToo movement--this imagined book too is attempting a revision, a "deconstruction" of the genre, but from a hopelessly male perspective
• because of her old advisor's book our protagonist consistently reckons with her past relationships with said advisor adding scenes of another nested campus novel inside the campus novel--though nearly all of these scenes take place outside the context of the campus itself which I think is intentional!--and flipping the usual point of view to that of the student the professor is taking advantage of.

It's all VERY well done honestly, adding all of these layers of lens on the genre into one book. I hadn't caught just how many layers Adelmann put into this until I started writing this out and now I'm sitting here really chewing on it and thinking about it and being impressed!