knitonepurltoo 's review for:

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

4.0

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Incredibly evocative, there are a number of unexpected turns in this book which kept it fresh for me. Lee is pretty unsympathetic because she spends most of the book stuck, stuck in her own head, her own fears. I can see why that perspective might have put some readers off, but to me, it made the moments of contrast with her dad, her older self all the more poignant. The chapter with Parents' Weekend is worth a star all by itself.