College admissions season at Seattle's Elliott Bay Academy is marked by glowing acceptances from top-tier institutions and students as impressive as their parents are ambitious. But when Stanford alerts the school it's allotting only one spot to EBA for their incoming class, three mothers discover the competition is more cutthroat than they could have imagined.
Tech giant Alicia turns to her fortune and status to fight for her reluctant daughter's place at the top. Kelly, a Stanford alum, leverages her PTA influence and insider knowledge to bulldoze the path for her high-strung daughter. And Maren makes three: single, broke, and ill-equipped to battle the elite school community aligning to bring her superstar down.
That's when, days before applications are due, one of the girls suffers a near-fatal accident, one that doesn't appear to be an accident at all.
As the community spirals out of control, three women will have to decide what lines they're willing to cross to secure their daughters' futures...and keep buried the secrets that threaten to destroy far more than just college dreams.
The perfect book club read with a suspense bite, Girls with Bright Futures combines the college admissions scandal with the edge of Big Little Lies, the snark of Class Mom, and the schadenfreude of watching the elite implode.
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If the drool at the corner of her mouth was any indication, Maren's attempt to stay awake until Winnie got home from her babysitting gig was, as her daughter would say, an epic fail.- 1: HOME OF MAREN AND WINNIE PRESSLEY, FRIDAY OCTOBER 29, 11:30PM
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(@Sourcebooks, 2 February 2021, e-book, 402 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I loved Girls With Bright Futures. This is a good mix of thriller and satire about contemporary life. The satire comes in the obsession the mothers in the book, except for Maren have about their daughters getting into an Ivy League College especially Stanford. The characters are exaggerated but no doubt realistic as I believe there are some parents in the USA who would act like the mother's in this book, bitching, stabbing each other in the back to get their daughter into the best schools. I found a lot of the events in the book hilarious. There are also some darker moments as well as Maren learns just how far parents will go.
