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Pink Glass Houses
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $28.00
ISBN13: 9780063312791
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Jul 30 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.17 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Delicious, decadent, and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha Elias.--Kirsten Miller, author of The Change
A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, this witty book club fiction is very Big Little Lies and Pineapple Street, but with diamonds, a tan, and a glass of rosé.
Welcome to Sunset Academy, the most coveted elementary school in Miami Beach, where there are three categories of families: rich, wealthy, and ultra-wealthy.
Perfectly tanned and smiling Charlotte Giordani is Sunset Academy's alpha mom. With a sleek blowout and relentless charm, Charlotte's brashness serves her well in a world of cutthroat social climbing. She's up for election as the PTA president and is riding high, having just secured a massive donation from billionaire Don Walker and his socialite wife Patricia. Don and Patricia are philanthropists, media darlings, and the owners of Villa Rosé, a newly built modern glass house that everyone is talking about. (It's either spectacular or a tacky eyesore, depending on how you feel about billionaires.)
Enter Melody Howard, a wide-eyed transplant from Wichita, Kansas, who is about to get a masterclass in rich people problems. At first a skeptic about Miami Beach and its endlessly hashtaggable social scene, Melody finds herself sucked into the glossy, frenetic world of Sunset Academy moms. Melody's easygoing manner and background in nonprofit management make her an asset to the PTA. But as a riveting domestic drama unfolds, Melody emerges as a rival for the PTA presidency, and Charlotte begins to unravel. Even the most powerful players on the social scene prove to be vulnerable when an investigation into white-collar crime--triggered by another school mom, the formidable Jamaican-American Judge Carol Lawson--threatens to take down the whole institution. No amount of rosé can soothe tensions as the scandal builds to a shocking crisis point.
Told in rotating first person voices, Pink Glass Houses is an irresistibly voyeuristic peek into the lives of the rich and infamous, where cocaine playdates, $100,000 kiddie birthday parties, and relentless social climbing are a way of life.
Asha Elias takes us on a wildly entertaining journey into the seamy underbelly of Miami Beach -- the glamorous, cutthroat, scandalous and sometimes deadly world of (I'm not making this up) elementary-school fundraising. --New York Times bestselling author Dave Barry
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