Description: Acceptance is a comic chronicle of a year in the life in the college admissions cycle, and the frantic rush of students and parents to do anything to distinguish themselves. For all, the price of admission requires compromise; for a few, the ordeal blossoms into an unexpected journey of discovery.
Brief description: Susan Coll is the Events and Programs Director at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. She is the author of the novels Beach Week, Acceptance, Rockville Pike, and karlmarx.com. Acceptance was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack in 2009. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Review Quotes:
"Bristles with enough wit and ambition to earn honors." --Entertainment Weekly
"If your teen is among the thousands of high school seniors anxiously awaiting their college acceptance letters, Coll's witty satire of the admissions process will provide both of you with some much-needed comic relief." --Life magazine "Hilarious and dismaying." --George F. Will, Newsweek "Coll's tale of the harrowing days of college admission is spot-on." --People "Skillfully executed . . . a winning social comedy . . . Captures the reasoned irrationality of teens . . . It will prove a winning combination for readers who are in the throes of the rejection letter hype." --USA Today "Coll neatly captures the irony and humor of an era in which colleges peddle to junior high kids and Saturdays are all about SAT prep." --The Christian Science Monitor