#SRC2016 Book Spotlight: Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford

Title:Everybody Rise

Author:Stephanie Clifford

Published:June 2016, St. Martin’s Griffin

Format: Paperback, 400 pages

It’s 2006 in the
Manhattan of the young and glamorous. Money and class are colliding in a
city that is about to go over a financial precipice and take much of
the country with it. At 26, bright, funny and socially anxious Evelyn
Beegan is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from
the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through
prep school and onto the Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an
outsider to her privileged peers, but when she gets a job at a social
network aimed at the elite, she’s forced to embrace them.

Recruiting
new members for the site, Evelyn steps into a promised land of
Adirondack camps, Newport cottages and Southampton clubs thick with
socialites and Wall Streeters. Despite herself, Evelyn finds the lure of
belonging intoxicating, and starts trying to pass as old money herself.
When her father, a crusading class-action lawyer, is indicted for
bribery, Evelyn must contend with her own family’s downfall as she keeps
up appearances in her new life, grasping with increasing desperation as
the ground underneath her begins to give way.

Bracing, hilarious
and often poignant, Stephanie Clifford’s debut offers a thoroughly
modern take on classic American themes – money, ambition, family,
friendship – and on the universal longing to fit in.

What readers are saying: 

“Full of ambition and grit. Clifford provides sharp-eyed access to a
moneyed world and its glamorous inhabitants.” ―Emma Straub, New York
Times bestselling author of The Vacationers

“A masterful tale of
social climbing and entrenched class distinctions . . . Tense,
hilarious, and bursting with gorgeous language. Stephanie Clifford is a
21st century Edith Wharton.” ―J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times
bestselling author of The Engagements and Maine

“A superb debut.
Everybody Rise is a 21st century version of a grand 19th century
novel–a smart, moving tale of class, ambition, and identity.” ―Malcolm Gladwell

“A
compulsive, up-close-and-personal read about the first cracks in the
greed-and-bleed U.S. economy that went flying off the rails so
spectacularly a short time later.” ―Library Journal

Everybody Rise  by  Stephanie Clifford  is one of  BookSparks “Summer Reads” reading selection picks.

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