“Finely attuned to the self-consciousness and vulnerability of adolescence, and the slippery elision of money and sophistication.”-The New Yorker

“Dazzling. . . . A piercing joy.”-Newsday

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.

Anna Shapirois the author of two previous novels,The Right BitchandLife and Love, Such as They Are,and a collection of essays,A Feast of Words.


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