The Admissions: A Novel

The Admissions: A Novel

The Admissions brilliantly captures the frazzled pressure cooker of modern life as a seemingly perfect family comes undoneÂ by a few desperate measures, long-buried secret â€”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 daughterâ€™s senior year of high school . . .
Â Â Â Firstborn Angela Hawthorne is a straight-A student and star athlete, with extracurricular activities coming out of her ears and a college application thatâ€™s not going to write itself. Sheâ€™s set her sights on Harvard, her fatherâ€™s alma mater, and like a dog with a chew toy, Angela wonâ€™t let up until sheâ€™s basking in crimson-colored glory. Except her class rank as valedictorian is under attack, sheâ€™s suddenly losing her edge at cross-country, and she canâ€™t 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 paperâ€”which, along with her college essay, has a rapidly approaching deadline.
Â Â Â Angelaâ€™s mother, Nora, is similarly stretched to the limit, juggling parent-teacher meetings, carpool, and a real estate career where she caters to the mega-rich and super-picky buyers and sellers of the Bay Area. The youngest daughter, second-grader Maya, still canâ€™t read; the middle child, Cecily, is no longer the happy-go-lucky 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 ill-advised moves put the Hawthorne family on a collision course thatâ€™s equal parts achingly real and delightfully screwballâ€”and they learn that whatever it cost to get their lucky lives it may cost far more to keep them.
Â Â Â 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.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-08-18
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Anchor
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-08-18
Format	Kindle eBook

The Admissions: A Novel

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