“Several times, I recognized a student from a photograph in the catalog.
“Fall in the Midwest would be pretty but not overly pretty-not like in New England, where they called the leaves foliage.” Sittenfield’s writing shines in its frequent simple observations: The precision fortunately extends to the mapping of her society and psyche as the girl enters a new world.
The one to one matching of elements from the author’s alma mater to her fictional universe are so comprehensive, one wonders in the end: why bother with the gloss? (The kids in Prep are still applying to Harvard and Michigan the political parties are still Republican and Democrat, etc.) Prep is a 2005 coming-of-age bildungsroman by Curtis Sittenfeld about a “LMK” (Lower Middle Class) girl from Indiana who goes to the prestigious Groton…I mean Ault…School.
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