A wicked pleasure for everyone
who's graduated
from The Nanny Diaries and is ready for
admission to
the savage underbelly of Manhattan's private kindergatens
When
turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds she’s
been downsized from her high-powered corporate
job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that
she’s going to need a whole new way to support
herself and her two private-school daughters.
At first she does the obvious thing: she panics.
Then she decides to put her years of marketing
savvy to work and dreams up a brilliant new business
– helping upscale New Yorkers get their
little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens.
Ivy
enters a parent-eat-parent world where the egos
are directly proportional to their owner’s
enormous incomes, peopled by her only-in-Manhattan
clients, including:
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Lilith
Radmore-Stein,
a newspaper mogul who is willing to risk her
entire empire in a demented effort to get
her son admitted to Harvard Day |
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Omar
Kutcher (“Kutcher the Butcher”),
a cold-blooded mob boss who seeks Ivy’s
counsel on whether to bump off or pay off
the powers-that-be to get his “little
pistol” into the city’s best all-girls
catholic school |
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Stu
Needleman,
Ivy’s most obnoxious client, who threatens
to ruin her if she won’t help his four-year-old
unibrowed daughter cheat on her kindergarten
entrance exam |
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Willow
Bliss and Tiny Herrera,
the bi-racial lesbian parents of an adopted
wheelchair bound black child who is the “triple
crown of diversity” that every school
will covet |
From
the backstabbers of corporate America to the leading
toddlers of Fifth Avenue, The Ivy Chronicles
is more than an insider’s look at this elite
and utterly preposterous universe. It is also
a tale of midlife reinvention and unexpected romance
– for anyone who has ever lost what he or
she holds dear and had to start over again.
Author Karen Quinn
knows whereof she speaks. After losing her own
high-powered corporate job, she, like Ivy, started
a business advising well-heeled Manhattanites
on private school admissions. Her hilarious take
on this terminally privileged, over-the-top world
where even tots carry resumes will have readers
snorting with laughter through every delicious
page.
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