The Ivy Chronicles
“A very funny and frequently eye-popping tale of unnatural selection in the jungle of New York City’s private kindergartens. Karen Quinn introduces us to a crazy world where parental ambition gets passed on to kids like a disease and childhoods are traded like stocks. If you think you may be a neurotic parent, read this and feel sane.”
Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It
Fans of New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries will rejoice in this wickedly hilarious novel, which acclaimed author Katharine Weber says is “much funnier and darker.” Optioned for a major motion picture starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Ivy Chronicles skewers the twisted priorities of America’s well-heeled elite.
Ivy Ames, fortysomething mother of two, loses her high-flying job (to downsizing) and her husband (to their neighbor) in the same day. To pay for her daughters’ private schooling, she starts a new business helping wealthy Manhattanites get their résumé-toting youngsters into the best kindergartens. Soon media moguls, mob bosses and others call on Ivy. But nothing beats the lesbian couple that believes their adopted African-American disabled son is “the triple crown of diversity.”
Prepare to laugh uncontrollably—and possibly be a little frightened—by this witty look at our sometimes preposterous society.
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