{"product_id":"the-sandersons-fail-manhattan-9781250384782","title":"The Sandersons Fail Manhattan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A laugh-out-loud mash-up of \u003ci\u003eBonfire of the Vanities \u003c\/i\u003eand Mean Girls.\" --Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Sanderson is very rich, but you can always be richer. He's up for a huge promotion at investment giant Bedrock Capital, but there's one crucial hurdle he must clear first--assuming he can keep the HR department at bay. He's also looking for any string to pull to get his maddeningly indifferent daughter Ginny into Yale. Ellie, his wife, is a newcomer to New York who only wants to fit in, while Daughter #2, the shy Zoey, is happy just to make a new friend, even in the form of the unusual new girl who calls herself a goblin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThings turn upside down when the girls' exclusive school admits its first trans student, only to have her mysteriously disappear. As a frenzied search begins, the entire city frets about her fate. Somehow caught in the crosshairs are the Sandersons, a family desperately trying to navigate all the new cultural rules--and failing miserably.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCOTT JOHNSTON grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Yale, where he later taught as an adjunct. He worked on Wall Street, including a stint in Hong Kong, and ran a quantitative hedge fund. More recently, Johnston shifted gears to cofound and subsequently sell two tech start-ups. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and blogs frequently about educational issues at The Naked Dollar.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51424498254098,"sku":"9781250384782","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_85805f20-4920-4169-bc27-336c6401b8b4.jpg?v=1751380849","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sandersons-fail-manhattan-9781250384782","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}