I just finished The Ivy Chronicles last night. This adventure through the Upper East Side follows the life changes of a successful women with a successful husband and a high-powered job, who loses all of it and makes a new life for herself and her daughters on the Lower East Side. She manages to carve out a career for herself advising upper-class ("first tier") families on how to win exclusive spots in the top kindergartens in the City.
Since no one has ever provided this service before she's striking out in uncharted territory and making it up as she goes along. Bribery, both to the schools and the children, lies told to improve the parents' chances of approval, and misrepresentation abound in this rarefied world where even four-year olds are expected to have a list of accomplishments in order to be considered for acceptance.
But through all this chaos, and all of her hinky choices Ivy still manages to win our approval. I found myself cheering for her and rooting her on and Karen Quinn wraps it all up very neatly in a satisfying conclusion. I ended up liking this book a lot more than I thought I would, since I'm not a huge fan of ChickLit, but I'll be checking out her other work.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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