6/29/2023 0 Comments Prep curtis![]() ![]() ![]() Where she may go too far is with the length and extent of Lee's ultimate humiliations. But she also captures how one solid friendship can make this general estrangement bearable. Sittenfeld nails the social tone deafness of the outsider for whom the moving parts of the world are entirely opaque. Her extreme caution to connect in only the circumscribed ways that might translate into belonging creates a tension that essentially incapacitates her. She is constantly on a threshold of humiliation and her hyper-vigilance to avoid this makes the book both compelling and excruciating. She has a desperate desire to do both, but a virtually pathological inability to do either. Lee struggles throughout the story with connecting and belonging. To bring this experience into even more relief, her protagonist, Lee Fiora, is a stunningly clueless girl from the mid-west. In Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld uses the setting of a preparatory boarding school in New England to magnify and dissect the peculiar compression chamber of adolescence. ![]()
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