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The Admissions: A Novel,Used
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The Admissions brilliantly captures the frazzled pressure cooker of modern life as a seemingly perfect family comes undone by a few desperate measures, longburied secret and college applications!The Hawthorne family has it all. Great jobs, a beautiful house in one of the most affluent areas of Northern California, and three charming kids whose sunny futures are all but assured. And then comes their eldest daughters senior year of high school . . .Firstborn Angela Hawthorne is a straightA student and star athlete, with extracurricular activities coming out of her ears and a college application thats not going to write itself. Shes set her sights on Harvard, her fathers alma mater, and like a dog with a chew toy, Angela wont let up until shes basking in crimsoncolored glory. Except her class rank as valedictorian is under attack, shes suddenly losing her edge at crosscountry, and she cant help but daydream about a cute baseball player. Of course Angela knows the time put into her schoolgirl crush would be better spent coming up with a subject for her English term paperwhich, along with her college essay, has a rapidly approaching deadline.Angelas mother, Nora, is similarly stretched to the limit, juggling parentteacher meetings, carpool, and a real estate career where she caters to the megarich and superpicky buyers and sellers of the Bay Area. The youngest daughter, secondgrader Maya, still cant read; the middle child, Cecily, is no longer the happygolucky kid she once was; and their dad, Gabe, seems oblivious to the mounting pressures at home because a devastating secret of his own might be exposed. A few illadvised moves put the Hawthorne family on a collision course thats equal parts achingly real and delightfully screwballand they learn that whatever it cost to get their lucky lives it may cost far more to keep them.Sharp, topical, and wildly entertaining, The Admissions shows that if you pull at a loose thread, even the sturdiest lives start to unravel at the seams of high achievement.
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