Book Focus

You’re In!

With college applications safely mailed off to leafy campuses around the country, and recommendation letters thankfully out of your hands, you can breathe a little. (Right, counselors?) And, we hope, now you can laugh a little at the process as detailed in Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death and the SATs (St. Martin’s Press), a novel by Paula Marantz Cohen, the best-selling author of Jane Austen in Boca. In it, a fictitious guidance counselor in a high-pressure New York City suburb deals with anxious parents who scheme to get their kids into anything Ivy, slacker kids who simply don’t care, and expensive consultants who undermine the integrity of the process. And, at the same time, our heroine looks for lost love.