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Dead Beat: Yale, Demons, and the Cost of Privilege
What does it cost to belong to an institution that was never built for you?
Leigh Bardugo’s Dead Beat, the final novel in the Ninth House trilogy, brings Alex Stern back to Yale as demons cross into the living world and the consequences of choices made in the previous books finally come due. But beneath the supernatural threat sits a more uncomfortable question: who actually pays for the privileges institutions offer?
Bardugo’s demons enter through what people fear or desire most, consuming them through the very opening they willingly provide. In this episode of The Book Brief Project, we…
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