The Admissions
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3.9
Meg Mitchell Moore
From the bestselling author of Vacationland comes a novel that perfectly captures the mania of the college admissions process as a seemingly perfect family comes undone by a few desperate measures, a long-buried secret—and a teenage girl's application to Harvard. “A fun, fast-paced, completely engrossing tale of a California family trying to get their eldest daughter into Harvard.... Brilliant and enjoyable on every level.” —Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 SummersThe Hawthorne family has it all: great jobs, a beautiful house in one of the most affluent areas of northern California, and three charming kids with perfectly straight teeth. Then comes eldest daughter Angela’s senior year of high school. Suddenly, everyone is floundering. As Angela writes and rewrites her application for Harvard—her father's alma mater—and struggles to maintain her position as valedictorian, Nora Hawthorne’s career hits a rough patch, taking her away from a newly distracted husband and uncharacteristically anxious younger daughters. And as the secrets everyone has been keeping will come to light, it sets the family on a final collision course that will force them to reevaluate, with humor and heart, the value of achievement.
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More Details:
Author
Meg Mitchell Moore
Pages
320
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2015-08-18
ISBN
0385540051 9780385540056
Ratings
Google: 4
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"http://www.anurseandabook.com/2015/11/the-admission-by-meg-mitchell-moore.html<br/>My youngest just turned 18, so in some ways I feel like this book illustrates how different raising kids has gotten even from 5-10 years ago. It's crazy the amount of pressure that we put on kids to achieve, perform, pick one sport, and the how personally some parents take it if their child is having trouble in any area, whether it's academic, sports or friends.<br/><br/>The Hawthorne family is probably that family that we all know via Facebook work or a friend of a friend. They seem to have it all, high paying jobs, beautiful house, perfect kids. But the reality of what it takes to get them (and keep them) there isn't hidden too far below. <br/><br/>Every member of the family (except Maya) seems to be harboring some secret that they can't even share with each other. Even in their own family, the pressure to be perfect keeps them all awake at night, prowling the house, taking Adderall, or hiking mountains in their office clothes. <br/><br/>The pressure keeps mounting for all of them.....who will crack......and will it be fatal?<br/><br/>The book was a quick read and would probably be a great book club book, it might force people to take a closer look at what kind of pressure they are placing on their own families to maintain a perfect appearance for outsiders."
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Marcee Feddersen