Prep: A Novel

A perceptive, achingly funny first novel featuring a middle-class Midwestern teenager trying to fit in at an elite East Coast boarding school, "Prep" is also a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescentangst and ambition. Curtis Sittenfeld's writing has appeared in Fast company, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, and Real Simple, and on public radio's This American Life.