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Prep is a witty and wise debut novel that perfectly captures the essence of adolescence, but goes beyond the teen experience to encompass larger themes like identity and family. Sittenfeld’s portrayal of this sensitive, tormented youth has won her comparisons to J.D. As a narrator, she is endearing and awkward, with her own idiosyncrasies and obsessions, and the reader is drawn to her a loner in a world of wealth and social status. The growing pains set in as through various friendships and romances Lee comes into her own. Welcome to the official athletic website for the John Curtis Christian Patriots. When she becomes involved with basketball hero Cross Sugarman, the experience is not quite as grand as Lee imagined. The weekend proves a catastrophic one for the humiliated Lee, providing her with a new perspective on the way families work. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld Published by Iris Clifford, 19:37:00 Description: Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. Lee’s decidedly middle-class upbringing is revealed when her mother and father arrive at the school for Parents’ Weekend in their shabby old Datsun.

With this unique and powerful coming-of-age novel, she tells the tale of an outsider who learns as she goes along how to cope in an unfamiliar world.

Ault’s well-heeled student body includes some familiar figures a Barbie-ish blonde (named, affluently enough, Aspeth Montgomery), a hunky basketball star and a lonely gay student but Sittenfeld’s novel is more than a collection of stereotypes. Lee Fiora is a teen from South Bend, Indiana, attending the high-status Ault School on scholarship.