Prep
by Curtis Sittenfeld
published by Random House
published in 2005
~~~In Prep I was expecting a posh boarding school story where the rich-bitch characters bragged about hotel deals in exotic foreign countries and wore designer clothes to class.
Instead, I got the story of one Lee Fiora, a young girl from Indiana who decides that boarding school sounds [...]
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— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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