Prep

What a debut by Curtis Sittenfeld! A novel that really gets into your mind and deals with the question, how to survive as a stranger in a strange land?
This strange land is an upper class high school in the east U.S. and Lee (the main character) is a middle class girl from the midwest. What amazes me in Prep is that all the characters could be pictured as stereotypes but Sittenfeld manages to give life and blood to most of them. No one is 100% pleasant and no one is 100% disagreeable. Even if Lee is quite extreme in her way of dealing with her alienation, my stomach reacts instinctively to the resemblance to situations in my own adolescence.