Ivy League Beach Read: Secret Society Girl
Elite upper education is the new black. Or, more accurately, it's the new Bratz doll, with tarted-up student heroines taking over the chick lit shelf and associated mascara-wearing media. It all started when Gilmore Girls' Rory went to Yale. Or when Curtis Sittenfeld's Groton-inspired novel, Prep, hit the bestseller list. It could have ended with Kaavya's plagiarism scandal, but the ensuing discussion of stressed-out, too-pressured teens (and hints at an unabashed sense of entitlement) is all part of the Ivy League mystique that is so-hot-right-now. And so the paperback-craving masses continue to demand CVs with their fiction.
Enter Diana Peterfreund, Yale '01, Geology/Literature double major and certified hottie (her swelling bosom appears on several romance novel covers), author of the work-in-progress Secret Society Girl series, chronicling the plight of a smart, sassy "Eli University" student tapped by ultra-intimidating secret society "Rose & Grave." Two SSG novels are in stores now; a third is on the way.
There's a one-to-one correlation between reality and Peterfreund's fiction, right down the last roman numeral behind each Digger's (as R&G members are known) name. Crib sheet including excerpts and a couple spoilers, after the jump.
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