SRP Book Review #8
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
406 pages
Prep chronicles the four year career of Lee Fiora, a scholarship student from the Midwest at an Ault School, an exclusive, expensive East Coast boarding school. As an outsider, Lee educates us the nature of such schools; the way money is never discussed but it's obvious who has it and who doesn't, the cliques, the difficulty of the academics. It's also a character study of Lee, who both desperately wants to fit in and actively takes steps to remain an outsider.
I didn't go to boarding school, but I did go to a very small college, and there were a lot of things I recognized here; the way everyone knew who everybody else was, even if they weren't friends or didn't hang out, how everyone was exceptionally smart and Lee, who was at the top of her class at home, struggled, and the descriptions of dorm living.
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
406 pages
Prep chronicles the four year career of Lee Fiora, a scholarship student from the Midwest at an Ault School, an exclusive, expensive East Coast boarding school. As an outsider, Lee educates us the nature of such schools; the way money is never discussed but it's obvious who has it and who doesn't, the cliques, the difficulty of the academics. It's also a character study of Lee, who both desperately wants to fit in and actively takes steps to remain an outsider.
I didn't go to boarding school, but I did go to a very small college, and there were a lot of things I recognized here; the way everyone knew who everybody else was, even if they weren't friends or didn't hang out, how everyone was exceptionally smart and Lee, who was at the top of her class at home, struggled, and the descriptions of dorm living.
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