Prep
(Curtis Sittenfield)
"Prep" is one of the few novels that captures the agonizing lemon-juice-in-the-eye reality of being a teenager. I picked the novel up while browsing, and was impressed that it was acclaimed by the New Yorker. I have to say that the novel is stunningly insightful in numerous aspects of teenage life. Yes, Lee is flawed. Who isn't flawed at this age? Who honestly could say they didn't spend some of their teenage years pining over an unreachable guy or wallowing in self pity? No one! I found Lee to be an embodiment of my teenage fears and insecurities. For example: Lee mentions how "it's better not to talk with someone after you've had a good conversation with them. Once you do, the good thing you had starts to fade. What if you talk, then run into them again in the book stacks? Then what do you say? I spent a lot of my time hiding." This hit me, because I have been known to have the same trepidation, even going so far as ducking into a different aisle in the grocery store. Immature? Yes. But that's part of growing up. As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20.
The reader goes through the trials and insecurities of Lee's four years at a New England prep school. She is economically lower then the other students, and struggles to find her niche in school. As the years go by, Lee has confusing relationships with opposite sex, painful fights with her parents, and unsteady bonds with other girls. Lee has a lot of growing up to do, but the reader gets to sit in the back seat. "Prep" may not be in the same league as Holden Caulfield, (who I, personally, also found frustrating) but it is pretty close. Uncomfortable, revealing, and ultimately beautiful--"Prep" is an insightful look at a period everyone tries to forget.
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