Finely attuned to the selfconsciousness and vulnerability of adolescence andthe slippery elision of money and sophistication.The New Yorker Dazzling. .. . A pie... » 

Finely attuned to the selfconsciousness and vulnerability of adolescence andthe slippery elision of money and sophistication.The New Yorker Dazzling. .. . A piercing joy.Newsday In 1966 longing to escape Levittown and her selfabsorbed artist father fourteenyearold Maude secures a scholarship to aprestigious prep school. As family tensions surface she struggles to find amorally acceptable place in the worlds of high art and social privilege. AnnaShapiro is the author of two previous novels The Right Bitch and Life andLove Such as They Are and a collection of essays A Feast of Words. «