Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer

[Anonymous]

This thread has become a great advertisement for public schools.

There isn't one sympathetic person here.

[Anonymous]

Just bought it on Kindle. Can't wait to read it! Especially since it has so many of you who oppose diversity, equity and inclusion panties in a bunch! HAHA

[Anonymous]

Has anyone read this book? It's HORRIBLE. Just so poorly written.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has become a great advertisement for public schools.

There isn't one sympathetic person here.

Well, this thread has certainly sold more than a few copies for the author. Well done, SFS parents!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has become a great advertisement for public schools.

There isn't one sympathetic person here.

Well, this thread has certainly sold more than a few copies for the author. Well done, SFS parents!

Thanks! SFS parents are committed to providing community service and uplifting the less fortunate. This is our charitable contribution to the author, as well as the larger Maret community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The author lost my respect, when in 2 paragraphs, the storyline was: Grad student chooses a married man to date, is stupid enough to get knocked-up, while visibly pregnant is asked out by Mr Wonderful guy that has no problem with it, "I love kids."

2 paragraphs. 2 paragraphs and I no longer give a sh*t about this idiot character.

And she's a terrible Mother, a complete doormat. I can't care. I can't care what happens to these people.

Right - in trying to be all woke and DEI, she 100% plays out the weak, submissive Asian woman stereotype, and even at the ending, she's still a terrible mother and submissive to others. Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read it, as an alum and a parent have seen some crazy things at Sidwell over the decades and was hoping it would capture some of that. But this book was crap, like a mashup of poorly written New York post articles about woke prep schools and revenge fantasies of someone whose kid probably got rejected by Sidwell, with a ridiculous and not credible plot twist at the end. Save your money and time, read something else

You call that a plot twist? It was SO predictable. I hope you weren't surprised by the ending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has become a great advertisement for public schools.

There isn't one sympathetic person here.

Well, this thread has certainly sold more than a few copies for the author. Well done, SFS parents!

Um, most of us borrowed it from the library. It was one of the worst books I've ever read. I'm so embarrassed for this poor lady, especially if her friends and colleagues know who she is (I have no skin in this game, my kids go to public school).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has become a great advertisement for public schools.

There isn't one sympathetic person here.

Well, this thread has certainly sold more than a few copies for the author. Well done, SFS parents!

Thanks! SFS parents are committed to providing community service and uplifting the less fortunate. This is our charitable contribution to the author, as well as the larger Maret community.

Ah, yes. “Community service” at Sidwell. Always a fairly loose definition of both words. Though at least this is local and not a service trip to the Azores. Do you think Alex will approve it?

[Anonymous]

Is Payet a nickname for Maret? How does that translate? As a grad of a local fancy private school but not Maret I genuinely can not figure it out.

[Anonymous]

I figured out who this person was by Googling scholarship gala and Maret. There's only one obvious name on the list of committee members. Google that name and you'll find them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know for a fact she trolls this website. I know it from some of the folks she thanks in the acknowledgements. Some of them are highly respected and known in professional circles. The verdict is that she’s the queen of cringe.

Always assumed the author ran the acknowledgement by the people they acknowledged. I guess not!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Payet a nickname for Maret? How does that translate? As a grad of a local fancy private school but not Maret I genuinely can not figure it out.

It also seems like a derogatory way of referencing the school her kids go to "Pay it"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Payet a nickname for Maret? How does that translate? As a grad of a local fancy private school but not Maret I genuinely can not figure it out.

Maybe the person thinks Maret is pronounced like “merit” and thinks they are making a dig, instead of, in fact, being dumb.

[Anonymous]

Payet is what the “author” named Maret in this rather poor excuse for a light summer read. Yes, it’s dumb but you should meet the “author”. Her poor students…