{"product_id":"admission-9780446540711","title":"Admission","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eYou Should Have Known\u003c\/i\u003e (adapted as \u003ci\u003eThe Undoing\u003c\/i\u003e on HBO), comes a page-turner about a college admissions officer with a secret--now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own ultimate admission. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdmission\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past shake a woman's life to its core.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Hanff Korelitz\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of one book of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Properties of Breath\u003c\/i\u003e, and three previous novels, \u003ci\u003eA Jury of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The Devil and Webster, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe White Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a novel for children, \u003ci\u003eInterference Powder\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also published essays in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eModern Love\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBecause I Said So\u003c\/i\u003e, and in the magazines \u003ci\u003eVogue, Real Simple, More, Newsweek, Organic Style, Travel and Leisure (Family)\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. She lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband (Irish poet Paul Muldoon, poetry editor at the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and Princeton poetry professor) and two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527001477394,"sku":"9780446540711","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_15c8047f-0c05-43d7-b3b5-8af2dd8df103.jpg?v=1731289917","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/admission-9780446540711","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}