Regina Gottlieb had been warned about ProfessorNicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigiousuniversity high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office whileundergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of thewomen's restroom and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one warned Reginaabout his exceptional physical beautyor his charismatic, volatile wife. My Education is the story of Regina's mistakes,which begin in the bedroom and endif they dofifteen years in the future andthousands of miles away.