A Squid in the Closet
Jessica Olin
- Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Picador, 406 pp, £12.99, September 2005, ISBN 0 330 44126 4
Depictions of the American teenager are not exactly scarce. Over the last few years we’ve seen queen bees, mean girls, freaks, geeks and dorks of all kinds. What we have not seen is someone like Lee Fiora, the reluctant heroine of Curtis Sittenfeld’s first novel, Prep, which is a thoughtful, measured account of life at a top East Coast boarding-school. In a field dominated by shock tactics and deliberate quirkiness, Prep is a straightforward, serious, funny book.
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Vol. 27 No. 19 · 6 October 2005 » Jessica Olin » A Squid in the Closet (print version)
pages 19-20 | 2433 words