I loved this smart, funny peek inside the high stakes world of San Francisco private schools. It has everything: social satire, family drama, friendship, a lot of laughs, a touch of romance, and lots to think about after. If you’ve been looking for that Where’d You Go, Bernadette feeling, try this. Bonus: The co-authors live in …
Marc-Uwe Kling’s Qualityland is about Peter Jobless (everyone in Qualityland gets their last name from their father’s occupation at the time of their birth) and his efforts to return a product he didn’t order. Since TheShop—the world’s most popular (and ubiquitous) online retailer—has the best (sorry, bestest) algorithm, it can’t possibly be wrong. This confusion …
We can thank Mr. Cantero for a dark, but funny, campy trip down memory lane. Be warned, these characters are not the same ones we remember– they have grown up damaged, made mistakes and have become more dimensional– with all the baggage that implies. Great fun! Loved the book! –Melanie, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, …
