![]() ![]() What appears to be an obvious failure may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, as both Kate and these anxious parents come to learn. ![]() If Small Admissions has a lesson, it’s that rejection does not have to be absolute. We can actually feel the birth of helicopter parents, watching them take flight. And at other times the feelings of parental love and wanting what’s best for their kids is palpable. At times you wonder if any of the parents promoting their children have actually met them. Kate must mediate between over- and underwhelming applicants (mainly middle-school age) and their overbearing parents. She delivers a perfect balance between the totally believable - awkward student interviews - and the truly absurd - a tense showdown involving parents and firearms. Novels inspired by real life can get bogged down in trivial details or veer off into slapstick.īut Poeppel’s tenor is just right. Amy Poeppel is the author of the novels Small Admissions and Limelight. Author Poeppel has been on both sides of the interview process, as an admissions officer at a private school and as a prospective parent. ![]()
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