Prep

A coming-of-age story set at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts follows intelligent and observant Lee Fiora, a scholarship student constantly feeling like an outsider among jaded and attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket. As a shrewd observer, Lee becomes both fascinated and repelled by her classmates' rituals and mores. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered. A brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in adolescence, Prep is an insightful and funny novel.