Grosse Pointe Girl

Grosse Pointe Girl: Tales From a Suburban Adolescence
A novel by
Sarah Grace McCandless
About the Book
Welcome to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where social rank is determined by the age of your money and the dryness of your martini.
The new girl in town, Emma Harris, must prove herself hip to the rigid rules of adolescent conformity. The quest for cool, she discovers, is one long final exam. To pass she must be cruel to be kind (ditching her best friend for the popular crowd), dress to impress (trading her favorite Esprit shirt for three plastic bracelets), and master the art of seduction (puckering up with Mulberry Stain or Peaches 'n' Cream lip gloss).
Life is all about making choices -- the right ones. Will Emma's social acrobatics put her on the short list for that coveted country club membership? Will the digits of her zip code pass muster? If her parents split up, will the gossip help or hurt her in the rankings?
Grosse Pointe Girl: Tales From a Suburban Adolescence serves as an indispensable road map through the dysfunction privilege brings. So put on your Guess? jeans and your jelly shoes and come along for the ride to the adolescent days that time forgot, but you never will.
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Reviews
“Hilariously captures teen politics . . . there’s compassion beneath the dead-on details. . . a polished debut.”
- People
“McCandless’ first novel is a hilarious, spot-on survey of the humiliations and perilous victories of a privileged adolescence…(her) wickedly funny descriptions and unerring ear for teen dialogue will appeal to any reader who remembers, or is surviving, the stomach-twisting anxiety of becoming an adult.”
- Booklist
“McCandless writes with humor and compassion and honesty about the most embarrassing time in all our lives.”
- Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness and Sighthound
“Sarah Grace McCandless is a flat-out fantastic writer. Among her many gifts is an ability to combine laugh-out-loud humor with an unaffected, devastating sadness. The result is absolute magic – the strange, beautiful truth about childhood revealed.”
- Joe Weisberg, author of 10th Grade
“When dreck like Grosse Pointe Pimp can sell out in Grosse Pointe bookstores, I can't even imagine the future for McCandless' far better debut, Grosse Pointe Girl. Can the stores order enough? Can the printers print enough?"
- Marta Salij, The Detroit Free Press
“Grosse Pointe Girl could've easily ended up as an insipid coming-of-age tale. Instead McCandless manages to make the reader aware of how much people already understand, and willfully ignore, of the world around them in those hateful/halcyon years.”
- Willamette Week