
Prep
A Novel
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An insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story, as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant 14-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.
As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of - and, ultimately, a participant in - their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.
Ultimately, Lee’s experiences - complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant - coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
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“Curtis Sittenfeld is a young writer with a crazy amount of talent. Her sharp and economical prose reminds us of Joan Didion and Tobias Wolff. Like them, she has a sly and potent wit, which cuts unexpectedly - but often - through the placid surface of her prose. Her voice is strong and clear, her moral compass steady; I’d believe anything she told me.” (Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)
“Speaking in a voice as authentic as Salinger’s Holden Caulfield and McCullers’ Mick Kelly, Curtis Sittenfeld’s Lee Fiora tells unsugared truths about adolescence, alienation, and the sociology of privilege. Prep’s every sentence rings true. Sittenfeld is a rising star.” (Wally Lamb, author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True)
“In her deeply involving first novel, Curtis Sittenfeld invites us inside the fearsome echo chamber of adolescent self-consciousness. But Prep is more than a coming of age story - it’s a study of social class in America, and Sittenfeld renders it with astonishing deftness and clarity.” (Jennifer Egan, author of Look at Me)
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Character study in a prep school setting
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A poignant
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Oldie but goodie
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Definitely a favorite!
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Great story not as great production
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Underwhelmed
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Reader
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I did not want to miss a word!
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The good aspects shine
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Lee is a LOT. She’s a lot of anxiety and angst. She questions her place in the school and social standing. She’s a scholarship student from Indiana, unworldly compared to her wealthy classmates. Her social anxiety and negative self-talk prevents her from making friends. She desperately wants to fit in, yet constantly declines invitations from others. As a freshman, Lee is constantly analyzing her place in the social hierarchy of the Ault school, as well as where everyone else fits in. She’s unkind to potential friends, fearing what others would think if she befriended a person she thought her classmates would see as undesirable and what they then would think about her. I admired Lee’s honesty about how she treated others and related to the being fourteen and wondering what my peers would think if I were friends with an unpopular girl. Would her unpopularity rub off on me?
Lee is embarrassed by her parents’ lack of sophistication and breeding as many fifteen and sixteen year olds are. Everything is mortifying, even the way mothers and fathers breathe. Again I admired Lee’s ability to describe, in all its ugliness, how she felt and how that affected her treatment of her parents.
Lee’s low self-esteem allows her not only to settle for less from others, but to give less to her relationships than her friends deserve.
PREP in basically Lee’s coming of age story through her high school years at Ault. It’s character, not plot driven.
PREP, like most Curtis Sittenfeld books, won’t be for everyone. At another point in my life, I might have one starred it. Today, I appreciate Sittenfeld’s gorgeous prose.
Coming of Age
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