Penelope

When Penelope O'Shaunessy, "an incoming freshman of average height and lank hair" steps into Harvard Yard for the first time she has lots of advice from her mother: "Don't be too enthusiastic, don't talk to people who seem to be getting annoyed, and for heaven's sake, stop playing Tetris on your phone at parties." Penelope needs this advice. She is the kind of girl who passes through much of her life with coffee spilled on her white shirt, who can't quite tell when people are joking, and who, inevitably, always says the wrong thing. But no amount of coaching will prepare Penelope for the people she meets at school.

Gloriously skewering the social hierarchy of college, Penelope is the brilliantly funny story of one of the most singular, memorable heroines in recent fiction.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 08/07/2012
ISBN: 9780307950314
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/04/2012 pg. 30
Booklist 06/01/2012 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 08/10/2012 pg. 78