| Summary: | "Finely attuned to the self-consciousness and vulnerability of adolescence, and the slippery elision of money and sophistication."- The New Yorker <br> <br> "Dazzling. . . . A piercing joy."- Newsday <br> <br> In 1966, longing to escape Levittown and her self-absorbed artist father, fourteen-year-old Maude secures a scholarship to a prestigious prep school. As family tensions surface, she struggles to find a morally acceptable place in the worlds of high art and social privilege.<br> <br> Anna Shapiro is the author of two previous novels, The Right Bitch and Life and Love, Such as They Are, and a collection of essays, A Feast of Words. <br> <br> <br> From the Trade Paperback edition.
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