
A stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from Catcher in the Rye to The Secret History Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning against old brick buildings girls running with lacrosse sticks across pristine athletics fields everyone singing hymns in chapel But as she soon learns Ault is a minefield of unstated rules & incomprehensible social rituals & Lee must work hard to find
- & maintain
- her place in the pecking order