![]() The teacher’s advice for his student doesn’t have the effect he wants it to, and the student ends up leaving disappointed. It’s a situation familiar to the narrator, and will be familiar to readers of Greenwell’s first novel, What Belongs To You, which features the same auto-fictional protagonist and describes one such similar circumstance. The protagonist, a queer American teaching abroad at the American College of Sofia in Bulgaria-as Greenwell was himself-listened somewhat regretfully to the man, a student of his, describe being rejected and distanced by his best friend after confessing having feelings for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a smoky, half-submerged bar in Sofia, Bulgaria, the protagonist of Garth Greenwell’s latest novel, Cleanness, finds himself giving advice to a young man facing a predicament all too familiar to our unnamed narrator. ![]()
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