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A carregar... The Admissionspor Meg Mitchell Moore
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HTML:The Admissions brilliantly captures the frazzled pressure cooker of modern life as a seemingly perfect family comes undone by a few desperate measures, long-buried secret â??and college applications! The Hawthorne family has it all. Great jobs, a beautiful house in one of the most affluent areas of Northern California, and three charming kids whose sunny futures are all but assured. And then comes their eldest daughterâ??s senior year of high school . . . Firstborn Angela Hawthorne is a straight-A student and star athlete, with extracurricular activities coming out of her ears and a college application thatâ??s not going to write itself. Sheâ??s set her sights on Harvard, her fatherâ??s alma mater, and like a dog with a chew toy, Angela wonâ??t let up until sheâ??s basking in crimson-colored glory. Except her class rank as valedictorian is under attack, sheâ??s suddenly losing her edge at cross-country, and she canâ??t help but daydream about a cute baseball player. Of course Angela knows the time put into her schoolgirl crush would be better spent coming up with a subject for her English term paperâ??which, along with her college essay, has a rapidly approaching deadline. Angelaâ??s mother, Nora, is similarly stretched to the limit, juggling parent-teacher meetings, carpool, and a real estate career where she caters to the mega-rich and super-picky buyers and sellers of the Bay Area. The youngest daughter, second-grader Maya, still canâ??t read; the middle child, Cecily, is no longer the happy-go-lucky kid she once was; and their dad, Gabe, seems oblivious to the mounting pressures at home because a devastating secret of his own might be exposed. A few ill-advised moves put the Hawthorne family on a collision course thatâ??s equal parts achingly real and delightfully screwballâ??and they learn that whatever it cost to get their lucky lives it may cost far more to keep them. Sharp, topical, and wildly entertaining, The Admissions shows that if you pull at a loose thread, even the sturdiest lives start to Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Well, I really liked the beginning of this book. I was really relating to the characters, it felt like it was a slow examination of a family under what has become the typical pressures of a certain kind of family when it felt like it went careening off the tracks.
All of a sudden every darn member of this family has an insane secret or lie (or two) Except Maya, thank you Maya.
These are some awfully bombastic crazy things going on in their lives. And a mountain lion attack! And no one likes to tell anyone anything ever. Even though these are all insane things. I just don't know how this family functioned in any capacity with the amount of secrecy that went on.
One of my pet peeves in books is when we are just waiting and waiting for something to inevitably happen. This book had this going on in like twelve different directions. The author tried valiantly to tie up all the loose ends. Some were dealt with more satisfactorily than others - the plagiarism detour was so abrupt I feel like I am not sure why we went through that at all.
I did really enjoy the first half though. I'd love to read something by this author that sticks to more plausible storylines (or at least tamps down the amount of enormous problems/reveals).