The Academy of Smoke and Mirrors A Boarding School on the Brink
by Alexander Troy and Jim Parry
"The Academy of Smoke & Mirrors is hilarious and heartwarming, meshuga and moving. It will delight anyone who has ever been, or rooted for, the underdog."
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Alexander Troy
I was a bookish child, which is no surprise considering our small house was crammed with books. My father was a professor of economics at Rutgers, and my mother worked in its library system. British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli quipped he was born in a library because of all the volumes in his childhood home. I could say the same.
The quality of nerdiness often goes hand in hand with being a young reader, and I was no exception. A childhood neighbor, the son of a Holocaust survivor, was once my closest friend. Our idea of a cool time was for him to come over to my house and we’d sit side by side, reading to ourselves. As I got interested in sports we drifted apart, but I am still grateful to him for lending me The Phantom Tollbooth.
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