Set in the private school world of Manhattan's Upper East Side, POSH tracks the lives of a group of teenagers and the adults who hope to control them. Dee Coopersmith, whose life driving a cab couldn’t be a bigger contrast to the rest of the parent body at Griffin, but whose sense of self and fierce protection of her daughter have unexpected consequencesįast-paced, gently satirical, yet deeply felt, POSH is a surprisingly poignant and knowing novel distinguished by its spare and elegant prose. Susan Avery, who is detached from her brilliant but tortured son, and finds it’s easier to love her Chinese Crested Hairless than her own child

Julianne Coopersmith, a sweetly compassionate child of divorce who happily wears designer hand-me-downs from her best friend, and adores Michael even in the face of his neediness and meltdowns Michael Avery, smart driven, and clearly on the fast track to Cambridge, but so troubled that he becomes a burden to his girlfriend

Lazy ministers to children, but her cross to bear is the parents-especially those who wonder why their little darlings aren’t going to Harvard Kathryn “Lazy” Hoffman is the headmistress at the Griffin School, in the midst of an affair she almost can’t remember why she started. The emotionally charged lives of the teenagers and adults that collide and intersect at Griffin include those of:

Griffin is a preparatory school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with the best students-and the richest parent body-the city has to offer. It’s a world of over-the-top entitlement and tribal customs, a world of surface interactions and deep needs-a world of private schools and privilege.

Posh by lucy jackson