Excerpt from Chapter One: The Complaint

Print and ebook formats published by Wipf and Stock (coming soon, June or July, 2023).

A FOOTNOTE TO PLATO is a debut novel that takes place in 2012 at a tiny liberal arts college in Vermont.

Philosophy professor, Dr. Isaac Fischelson, finds himself embroiled in a student drama which leads to a false accusation of sexual harassment and an investigation intended to force him out. He faces a disgraceful end to his long career, unless he retires immediately. But Dr. Fischelson refuses to be, as his students like to say, an epic failure.

Zeb is a promising math student who has resorted to dealing coke to pay for college. He lives on a failed hippie commune with his toxic mother, who seems intent on bankrupting her son, both materially and spiritually. Zeb tries his best to escape her world, but what he really needs is a bit of luck.

The two meet in the Maintenance Committee, and soon form a Socrates-Plato bond. When Zeb offers to help the professor put together an online lecture series, Isaac decides to take him and a small group of students to Greece to film it. It’s an opportunity of a lifetime for Zeb, and Isaac’s last chance to save his reputation—and maybe leave behind a legacy.

A Footnote to Plato

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Chapter 1: The Complaint

Author, blogger, philosopher. She is an associate acquisitions editor and audiobook narrator at After Dinner Conversation, a magazine dedicated to philosophical short stories.

Tina Lee Forsee

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