Swimming with Jonah

On a sweltering August morning,Jane Guy steps from anisland plane into a strange dangerous world. The awkward, insecure child of a world-renowned physician and a beautiful Bostonian ballerina, she has come to attend Queen's Medical School on a tiny Indonesian island.

For an exorbitant enrollment fee, Queen's is willing to accept any American child of privilege who has keen rejected by all normal medical schools.Not bound by American law, the school specializes in motivatingproblem students — no matter what the cost to each student. For Jane, given the transgressions of her past, Queen's is her last chance.

Surrounded by jungle and sea, Jane is plunged into unrelenting, heat and the psychological abuse of the teaching staff. The truest connection she makes on the island is with another student Keefer. Together they spend their few spare minutes watching as Jonah — a shark that Keefer keeps captive in an ocean pen — slowly circles his cage.

As days extended into weeks, Jane feels herself changing, retreating deeper into a body and spirit she no longer recognizes. And as an aura of desperation deepens among her peers, Jane's determination to succeed grows. Because failure is the only way off the island, and for Jane, it is not an option.

Jane Guy, the awkward, insecure daughter of a world-renowned physician and a beautiful ballerina, has come to a tiny Indonesian island to attend Queen's Medical School--an institution that will accept, for an exorbitant fee, any American child of privilege despite his or her previous academic history. Surrounded by jungle and water, Jane is immediately plunged into unrelenting heat and the psychological abuse of the teaching staff. The truest connection she makes on the island is with Keefer, a sensitive fellow student who keeps a shark he has named Jonah captive in an ocean pen. But as days extend into weeks, Jane Guy feels herself changing, retreating into a body and spirit she can no longer recognize. And as an aura of desperation deepens among her peers, Jane's determination to succeed grows. Because failure is the only way off the island, and for Jane, it is not an option.Jane Guy, the awkward, insecure daughter of a world-renowned physician and a beautiful ballerina, has come to a tiny Indonesian island to attend Queen's Medical School--an institution that will accept, for an exorbitant fee, any American child of privilege despite his or her previous academic history.Surrounded by jungle and water, Jane is immediately plunged into unrelenting heat and the psychological abuse of the teaching staff. The truest connection she makes on the island is with Keefer, a sensitive fellow student who keeps a shark he has named Jonah captive in an ocean pen. But as days extend into weeks, Jane Guy feels herself changing, retreating into a body and spirit she can no longer recognize. And as an aura of desperation deepens among her peers, Jane's determination to succeed grows. Because failure is the only way off the island, and for Jane, it is not an option.