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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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Critic reviews
“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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Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly 20 years in New York City. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister's Instagram feed, and text messages with the best friend she never sees anymore. Enter Sam, a senior at the local women's college, whom Elisabeth hires to babysit.
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thought provoking story
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
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- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin, and others
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The Butler family has had their share of trials - as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest - but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with, and her younger sisters have alternately appreciated and chafed at her strong will. They are as stunned as the rest of the small community when she and her husband, Proctor, are arrested, and in a heartbeat, the family goes from one of the most respected in town to utter disgrace.
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Loved It!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-22-19
By: Anissa Gray
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Doctors and Friends
- By: Kimmery Martin
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Hannah, Compton, and Kira have been close friends since medical school, reuniting once a year for a much-needed vacation. Just as they gather to travel in Spain, an outbreak of a fast-spreading virus throws the world into chaos.
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Post COVID
- By RueRue on 01-09-23
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Water Witches
- By: Chris Bohjalian
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Patience Avery is a dowser—a "water witch". Her natural gifts enable her to locate lost items, missing people, and aquifers deep within the earth. This last skill is more in demand than ever, as her home state of Vermont is in the grip of the worst drought in years. Patience knows better than most that this crisis is only the start: a sign of worse things to come.
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decent listen
- By Taintedrose76 on 01-18-23
By: Chris Bohjalian
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Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club)
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- By: Curtis Sittenfeld
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- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she’s long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally’s friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the show, he joins the not-so-exclusive group of talented but average-looking and even dorky men at the show.
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Not really for me
- By Emma on 04-19-23
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Smoke
- A Novel
- By: Dan Vyleta
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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Welcome to a Victorian England unlike any other you have experienced before. Here, wicked thoughts (both harmless and hate-filled) appear in the air as telltale wisps of Smoke. Young Thomas Argyle, a son of aristocracy, has been sent to an elite boarding school. Here, he will be purged of Wickedness, for the wealthy do not Smoke.
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Not for me
- By BikeVON on 09-03-16
By: Dan Vyleta
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I Was Told It Would Get Easier
- By: Abbi Waxman
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Squashed among a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into a series of off-roading misadventures, from the USA Today best-selling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.
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I wasn't told it would be this helpful! But it was
- By Hamutal Schieber on 08-26-20
By: Abbi Waxman
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Smart Women
- By: Judy Blume
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Judy Blume
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Margo and B.B. are each divorced, and each is trying to reinvent her life in Colorado - while their respective teenage daughters look on with a mixture of humor and horror. But even smart women sometimes have a lot to learn - and they will, when B.B.’s ex-husband moves in next door to Margo.
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What smart women?
- By Monica Aragon on 05-15-24
By: Judy Blume
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The Anatomy of Dreams
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- By: Chloe Benjamin
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When Sylvie Patterson, a bookish student at a Northern California boarding school, falls in love with a spirited, elusive classmate named Gabe, they embark on an experiment that changes their lives. Their headmaster, Dr. Adrian Keller, is a charismatic medical researcher who has staked his career on the therapeutic potential of lucid dreaming: by teaching his patients to become conscious during sleep, he believes he can relieve stress and trauma. Over the next six years, Sylvie and Gabe become consumed by Keller’s work, following him across the country.
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Really bad
- By Mugs on 04-30-20
By: Chloe Benjamin
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The Heiress
- The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh
- By: Molly Greeley
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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As a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh was prescribed laudanum to quiet her, and now the young woman must take the opium-heavy tincture every day. Growing up sheltered and confined, removed from sunshine and fresh air, the pale and overly slender Anne grew up with few companions except her cousins, including Fitzwilliam Darcy. Throughout their childhoods, it was understood that Darcy and Anne would marry and combine their vast estates of Pemberley and Rosings. But Darcy does not love Anne or want her.
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Not a pleasant listen
- By Amazon Customer on 02-18-21
By: Molly Greeley
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Sisterland
- A Novel
- By: Curtis Sittenfeld
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar “senses”—innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people’s secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them.
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Too many minor details and not enough story.
- By Erica on 07-05-13
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The Man of My Dreams
- A Novel
- By: Curtis Sittenfeld
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Hannah Gavener is 14 in the summer of 1991. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah’s own life, her parents’ marriage is crumbling. And somewhere in between these two extremes - just maybe - lie the answers to love’s most bewildering questions. But over the next decade and a half, as she moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Albuquerque, Hannah finds that the questions become more rather than less complicated: At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed-up childhood?
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The Man of My Dreams
- By Susan on 01-07-11
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How Beautiful We Were
- A Novel
- By: Imbolo Mbue
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made - and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests.
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As relevant as it is heart-wrenching
- By Anonymous User on 10-18-21
By: Imbolo Mbue
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- Elizabeth Ratner
- 07-11-21
I did not want to miss a word!
This story of a teen aged girl from a middle class midwestern family who attends an eastern boarding school for her high school years has so many “book group discussion” topics. These include class, ethnicity, sex that means one thing for our heroine and another for the boy, a 4 year long crush, issues with parents, teachers, friends and the rigorous academics at a prestigious prep school. It is also a good example of what we hope our teenagers will one day understand that so much teenage angst will dissipate in college and beyond. The reader lives through all of this with Lee and, I believe, hopes that all will turn out well for this kind and introspective young woman, so sensitively narrated on Audible. I was sorry when the story ended.
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- Stephanie
- 03-30-24
The good aspects shine
The person reading the story made the character come alive. The plot was lacking. However, it is filled with details that describe the boarding school experience well. I appreciate that the characters are morally ambiguous.
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- Emily Kiehn
- 04-12-23
A poignant
A poignant POV of teen angst that feels so isolating. This book evokes familiar feelings of being out of place when you know you should feel so lucky and happy. Narration was overall a joy to listen to. Though the book was long, I felt comfortable with the episodic storytelling structure. The protagonist was at some points unlikeable but isn’t that what we all feel about our young selves?
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- JuliaPer
- 10-11-21
Oldie but goodie
I learned about this book from a “if you liked this try that” article and was half way through before I realized it was something of a cult classic. The story perhaps dragged a bit in the middle chapters but really captures how so many of us felt in high school, years that we’re told are supposed to be the best of our lives. The thing I really loved about the story is the author never gives in to the cliche or expected - whenever you think you know what’s going to happen, the author takes a left turn, but not in a way that feels forced or contrived, but rather in a way that feels like what would happen in real life. The narrator was also really well chosen for the inner dialogue of a teen girl.
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- Jamara Auchter
- 10-21-21
Definitely a favorite!
This Audiobook has become my go-to listen while I'm falling asleep. The story & narration are superb.
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- Stephanie Walker
- 04-03-20
Great story not as great production
This was a very engaging book, however the production was terrible. The first word of almost every sentence was cut off. It was hard to understand at times because sometimes that first word was important to the rest of the sentence. After about an hour of this I restarted the book in case it was something on my end. But the problem persisted and I just had to struggle through. This book took me longer than usual because I was so annoyed by the production that I didn’t stay as engaged as I probably would have been if that weren’t happening.
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- Jennifer Cain
- 01-11-24
Underwhelmed
This is a long story that I felt obligated to finish. The chapters are extremely long, and prevented me from following my “5 chapter rule” to read the first five chapters before deciding if I enjoy the book. Once I finished the first chapter, I continued listening, but unfortunately I didn’t enjoy it.
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- Janet
- 04-17-25
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Pretty realistic 1st person story of adolescence and self awareness. Nicely told, good length and nicely paced.
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- cotswoldrose
- 11-11-22
If you like episodic stories
This is not a typical novel with a clear plot. It is an episodic novel similar to many TV show structures that follows the experience of a teenage girl in an 80s or 90s boarding school. That is fine-- one of my all- time favorite novels is like that (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)-- but this one was just not compelling enough to hold my interest, and I found the protagonist realistic enough but increasingly unlikable. I wouldn't mind this so much if she had developed and matured over time, but she didn't. This made her just annoying. There was nothing elevating at the end, and in a novel like this there should be something to give the story meaning and purpose. The author did an excellent job of probing the psyche of the protagonist, reminding me uncomfortably of myself at that age, but it was just too much without deep character change and development. For these reasons I listened to four chapters (after setting the pacing on 1.25), and then skipped to the last chapter.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-05-21
Boring to fascinating
At first when I was listening to the spec I thought it was kind of boring and going nowhere. But as the story and narrative developed it got fascinating and ended up being a very interesting perspective on a prep school.
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