Kathryn's affair, predictably, becomes public knowledge, sparking domestic and professional upheaval. Morgan mopes her way through the school year, and Julianne's mother strikes up an unlikely friendship with Michael's mother. Cracks form in Julianne and Michael's relationship after Michael shows signs of mental instability, though Julianne's loathe to give up on him, even when his symptoms hint at violent tendencies. Varied in age and income bracket, the cast is finely drawn if familiar: Julianne Coopersmith, a middle-class teen with an overprotective mother, attends Griffin on scholarship Morgan Goldfine, Julianne's best friend whose mother recently died, is awash in grief Michael Avery, Julianne's boy wonder boyfriend, is Harvard bound and Kathryn "Lazy" Hoffman, Griffin's headmistress, is having a professionally verboten affair with a teacher. The pseudonymous Jackson (an "acclaimed short story writer and novelist") plumbs the lives of those who pace the halls at New York City's exclusive Griffin School in this accomplished novel.
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