![]() Instead of triumphing, her underdog is gradually corrupted by her frustrated social climbing. But Sittenfeld is too serious to let the story lapse into cliché. The rest could have been a standard nerd narrative, as Lee pursues the unattainably cool and gorgeous Cross Sugerman and finds an unexpected niche cutting hair for the popular kids. But once there, she’s immediately the dorkey outcast, relegated to the company of the ethnics and the weirdoes. ![]() Seduced by media depictions of glamorous boarding-school life, South Bend teenager Lee Fiora uses her straight-A average as a ticket out of her LCM (lower middle class, in prep-school speak) home, winning a scholarship to tony Ault. A witty, involving boarding-school drama from Seventeen magazine award-winner Sittenfeld. ![]()
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