Getting In: A Novel

Getting In: A Novel

by Karen Stabiner
Getting In: A Novel

Getting In: A Novel

by Karen Stabiner

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Overview

Q: What does a parent need to survive the college application process?

A. A sense of humor.
B. A therapist on 24-hour call.
C. A large bank balance.
D. All of the above.

Getting In is the roller-coaster story of five very different Los Angeles families united by a single obsession: acceptance at a top college, preferably one that makes their friends and neighbors green with envy. At an elite private school and a nearby public school, families devote themselves to getting their seniors into the perfect school--even if the odds are stacked against them, even if they can't afford the $50,000 annual price tag, even if the effort requires a level of deceit, and even if the object of all this attention wants to go somewhere else.

Getting In is a delightfully smart comedy of class and entitlement, of love and ambition, set in a world where a fat envelope from a top school matters more than anything . . . almost.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781401395032
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 03/16/2010
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 416
File size: 497 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Karen Stabiner is a journalist who writes about food, health, and family issues. Some of her previous books include Family Table, a two-year collaboration with James Beard award-winning Michael Romano; the novel Getting In, a comic look at the college admissions sweepstakes; My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training, a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award; and All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters. She is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times' Opinion section, and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, Los Angeles Magazine, and the New Yorker. She lives in New York City with her family.

What People are Saying About This

Carolyn See

"Getting In takes an edgy, knowing look inside the lives and minds of love-crazed parents-galvanized equally by desperation and devotion-as they try with all their might to thrust their cherished children into the universities of their dreams."--(Carolyn See, Making a Literary Life)

Arianna Huffington

"A savvy insider's take on a high-stakes, cutthroat campaign-except it's not about getting into the White House, but about getting into the perfect college. Stabiner's sharp, witty tale is as essential as a good SAT prep course-but a hell of a lot more fun."

Lisa Belkin

"Karen Stabiner has clearly been through the crazy circus that is college admissions, and lucky for the rest of us she took pitch-perfect notes. You will come away from her book reassured that all the other families of applicants are even loonier than yours-or reassured that you fit right in. What do you mean, this is fiction?"--(Lisa Belkin, New York Times parenting writer [and hardy survivor of her son's college application process])

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