Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults.
Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only "to love and to be loved," but also "to be worthy of life itself." Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Li.
When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man.
Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults