The Goldbach Conjecture: A Novel (The Skip Gershwin Tetralogy)

In 2023, poet Skip Gershwin returns to Soleri College — the experimental school in the desert Southwest where he was once a student — simply expecting to teach. Instead, he steps into a politically engineered takeover. A powerful governor has installed a new board determined to purge Soleri of “wokeness,” placing courses, faculty, and students under ideological siege. As the campus fractures, resistance forms in uneven, conflicted ways: principled, chaotic, and sometimes self-defeating. Skip finds himself pulled between loyalty to his students, his own artistic instincts, and the harsh realities of a school being remade from above.The Goldbach Conjecture is a timely, razor-sharp novel about the fragility of liberal institutions and whether a community can survive when those sworn to govern it are determined to remake it in their own image. Read more