I thought Prep was a definite read for every teenager (14-20). It's like living over my life as I turned over every page. It's a modern Catcher in the Rye.
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
PLOT
Lee Fiora is 14: a smart, observant and a small town girl from Indiana. She left her supporting family, after reading a highly decorated brochure of a boarding school with cute boys wearing sweaters in old buildings and girls with hockey sticks. Lee obtained a scholarship and she thought this was it~ 'this is where I'm going to spend 4 most important years of my life.
Ault is not at all what she thought it would be. Of course, she would be an outsider as she is occasionally awkward and stiff. Lee learns the process of becoming an adult as she gain and lose friendships, complicated relationships with the teachers, conflicts with her parents and a secretive, crazy relationship that she never expected. A singular portrait of painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
Prep selected by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2005
Time
"Critics have compared author Curtis Sittenfeld to Salinger and Plath. But her novel Prep, about boarding school, pegs her as a name to watch in her own right."
Elle
"This, thankfully, is a book...that does not sink under the ponderous weight of its own angst or traffic in Salinger-esque precociousness or whimsy. Sittenfeld should be commended for creating a teenage heroine who is disaffected but not cartoonishly sullen and whose first romantic obsession resembles scientific fascination more than swooning hysteria. Those whose hearts were led astray by repeated viewings of 'Dead Poets Society'...will deeply appreciate this gift...Moving but not at all maudlin."
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