Lucinda Rosenfeld is the author of the novels The Pretty One, What She Saw..., Why She Went Home, and I'm So Happy For You. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, oprah.com, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.
"A genuinely enjoyable story about a woman who is both preposterous
and recognizable and a plotline that is at once absurd and possibly
happening in your own neighbourhood at this very moment."--The
Globe and Mail
"A take-no-prisoners racial romp and commentary on modern
motherhood as told by a descendant of Tracy Flick."--Sloane
Crosley, New York Times Book Review
"CLASS is a brilliant depiction of the role of race and class in
America seen through the lens of its public schools. This novel is
brave, funny, and persuasive, and had me wincing like crazy with
recognition. Lucinda Rosenfeld hits all the right notes."--Bliss
Broyard, author of One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life-A Story of
Race and Family Secrets
"Every time Karen Kipple...worries about keeping her daughter in a
New York City public school, I want to shake her - and look in the
mirror."
--The Washington Post
"I haven't liked being in a conflicted, bizarre, earnest, and
tormented character's head this much since the time I spent with
Patty Berglund in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom... CLASS is so
good!!!"--Wednesday Martin, author of Primates of Park Avenue: A
Memoir
"Karen is a flawed and unlikable character, to be sure, but a
certain sector of readers will identify with her-cringing all the
while. Rosenfeld's sharp and searing look at race and class in
urban America will make quite an impression on readers and will
become an excellent book discussion selection. It will make readers
uncomfortable, but for all the right reasons."--Rebecca Vnuk,
Booklist (starred review)
"Lucinda Rosenfeld's deliciously smart and original new novel,
CLASS, had me riveted from page one. Karen Kipple's ethical
dilemmas will be familiar to any urbanite with a conscience.
Rosenfeld has pulled off something rare-she has shown it's possible
to write a fun and juicy-yet also sincere-book about liberal guilt
and social hypocrisy."--Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs
of Nathaniel P.
"Rosenfeld's writing showcases the keen eye of a cultural
anthropologist steeped in the rituals of the urban upper-middle
class. With an acerbic wit and insight...she deftly punctures the
hypocrisy that's sometimes exposed in the daunting process of
trying to be true to one's professed beliefs.... A piercing take on
one woman's struggle to narrow the gap between her liberal ideals
and the realities of modern urban life."--Harvey Freedenberg, Shelf
Awareness
"Stiletto sharp...in a series of skillfully executed set pieces,
Rosenfeld skewers the pretensions and preoccupations of women for
whom "parent" is both verb and competitive sport...Ms. Rosenfeld is
an astute anthropologist whose satire reaches fresh levels of
absurdity."--Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
"The story is uncomfortable and excellently handled by Rosenfeld;
it invites questions about faithfulness and philanthropy, one's
obligation to those less fortunate, and what it means to be
middle-class in an unequal society."--Publishers Weekly
"This satirical novel will have you thinking about your own values
amidst society and its hypocrisy. If you belong to a book club,
consider adding Rosenfeld's book to your roster-it will make for
great discussion."--Bella NYC
"This take-no-prisoners satire puts politically correct urbanites
in their place for real.... Grimly hilarious.... Right on,
Rosenfeld."--Kirkus Reviews
"With CLASS, Lucinda Rosenfeld has written a spot-on satire of the
'new' Brooklynites as they hit the parenting phase. Her Karen
Kipple is a modern-day mom driven slightly mad by the conflict
between her ideals and the reality subverting them. Over anxious
and underappreciated, she still strives to do the right thing, and,
like most of us, doesn't always succeed. Like its protagonist, this
is a smart book that also knows how to have a little fun."--Eddie
Joyce, author of Small Mercies
Rosenfeld's attack on upper-middle-class pieties is unerring in its
aim.--New Yorker
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