24-year-old Misuzu Hara is a shy, introverted high school teacher, content to play the passive role of observer... until her quiet life is shaken to its foundations by two men: one her friend’s fiancé, the other her own student.In Sensei’s Pious Lie, Akane Torikai weaves a complex web of sex, ambivalence, desire, and violence that combines to produce one of the most nuanced and affecting explorations of the intersection between power and gender available in any medium.
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