Exit Strategy
by Ike Holter

Righteously angry, riotously funny, and wise to the tensions between abstract policy and lived experience, Ike Holter’s Exit Strategy centers on vivid, unforgettable characters struggling to maintain faith in a vocation that is being determinedly undermined.

Drawing from the headlines, Exit Strategy is set in Chicago and tells the story of a fictional public high school slated for closure at the end of the year.

Despite funding cuts, apathy and bureaucrats run amok, a small, multiracial group of teachers launch a last-minute effort to save the school and put their careers, futures and safety in the hands of a fast-talking administrator who may be in over his head.

The tenuous situation also raises fears and anxieties among students, and within the volcanic neighborhood that is home to the school.

Exit Strategy is an exhilarating call to arms about what we owe each other.