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Eating the Cheshire Cat by Helen Ellis
4.0
Eating the Cheshire Cat, Helen Ellis
Mean girls times 10, set in the the south, where social status and social success is the end all for many woman. Southern gothic with lots of humor thrown in.
Three teenage girls in Tuscaloosa Alabama, along with their mothers, are trying to climb the social latter to success. From fancy camps and High School cheerleading to prom dates and College sorority rushing, these girls must find their places. Some do it exceptionally well, if stepping on others to achieve success, while others go literally mad from all the pressure.
Sarina is the most ambitious and driven of the girls, and she and her mother will stop at nothing to get her where she needs to go - nabbing that rich and successful husband so she can have the perfect home and rule the country club. It doesn't matter whose life she ruins on the way up. Two lives she messes with and messes up in horrible and hilarious ways belong to Nicole and Bitty Jack.
Nicole lives across the street and is obsessed with Sarina in an unnatural way. Nicole's mother is determined to make Nicole a social success, despite Nicole's many failings, and the two butt heads often for control of Nicole's life. Bitty Jack is from a much less financially successful family. Bitty is a good girl from a loving family and nothing prepares her and her family for the wrath of Sarina. Bitty tries hard to build a good life for herself despite Sarina's attempts to derail her hopes and dreams.
As the three finally fully collide at a homecoming game at college, nothing can prepare the reader or the crimson tide for the final conflagration.
At times hilarious and also terrifying in its portrayal of social climbing madness, this is a funny and scary depiction of life in the south for women.
Mean girls times 10, set in the the south, where social status and social success is the end all for many woman. Southern gothic with lots of humor thrown in.
Three teenage girls in Tuscaloosa Alabama, along with their mothers, are trying to climb the social latter to success. From fancy camps and High School cheerleading to prom dates and College sorority rushing, these girls must find their places. Some do it exceptionally well, if stepping on others to achieve success, while others go literally mad from all the pressure.
Sarina is the most ambitious and driven of the girls, and she and her mother will stop at nothing to get her where she needs to go - nabbing that rich and successful husband so she can have the perfect home and rule the country club. It doesn't matter whose life she ruins on the way up. Two lives she messes with and messes up in horrible and hilarious ways belong to Nicole and Bitty Jack.
Nicole lives across the street and is obsessed with Sarina in an unnatural way. Nicole's mother is determined to make Nicole a social success, despite Nicole's many failings, and the two butt heads often for control of Nicole's life. Bitty Jack is from a much less financially successful family. Bitty is a good girl from a loving family and nothing prepares her and her family for the wrath of Sarina. Bitty tries hard to build a good life for herself despite Sarina's attempts to derail her hopes and dreams.
As the three finally fully collide at a homecoming game at college, nothing can prepare the reader or the crimson tide for the final conflagration.
At times hilarious and also terrifying in its portrayal of social climbing madness, this is a funny and scary depiction of life in the south for women.