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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s being shopped around Hollywood for a tv deal! [/quote]

I was googling to find out if this was true (of course it's not) and I found the few reviews this book has gotten. It's telling the Post passed on reviewing it, despite the local and DEI angles.

"she occasionally veers toward eye-rolling dialogue ("Mother, the dominant paradigm replicates itself if you simply leave change to institutional decision-making!") and unbelievable scenarios (Aki outing a manipulative parent's extramarital affair during a meeting by declaring, "You care so much about your son you've been sharpening the guidance counselor's pencil"--before being promoted to head of the upper school!).
https://www.shelf-awareness.com/sar-issue.html?issue=1236#m23996

"Sasaki’s timely if muddled debut"
 Some of the satire feels a bit convoluted—Aki is understandably conflicted, but it’s sometimes hard to tell whether Sasaki means to skewer the cloistered world of private schools or the cultural forces that make her characters believe such institutions are a necessary evil.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781639107834

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