When you live in a place called Paradise, life is perfect, right? Not quite. But that's the setting of Lauren Weisberger's latest novel Where the Grass is Green and the Girls Are Pretty.
Skye feels unfulfilled in her role as mother and Girl Scouts co-leader. Is this what she got a college degree for? Meanwhile, her sister Peyton is a big-time TV news anchor in New York. That is, until Peyton's husband is arrested for buying their daughter's way into Princeton. Their daughter, Max, didn't even want to go to Princeton, but when have her parents - her mother, primarily - ever allowed anything that didn't keep up with appearances?
In the vein of Weisberger's first novel The Devil Wears Prada, which I'm sure her future work will forever be compared to, this novel skewers a certain type of people with the end message of it's better to be true to yourself.
If you're looking for a light read, especially something to get you through the long, dark winter months, then this novel, which takes place over a summer, might just brighten things up for you. I think it would be good for a book club discussion: talking about the real-life drama over all those rich parents who cheated their kids' ways into college, discussing what your family would do if it happened to you, rehashing your own college admissions process and how much input your parents had on where you went, and discussing the actions of the book's characters, of course. (I mean, can we talk about how Isaac never once throws Peyton under the bus??)
Where the Grass is Green and the Girls Are Pretty is published by Random House and is available to purchase now. I received a free Kindle version in exchange for this review.
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