Sandersons Fail Manhattan
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family drama
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NYC elites
prep school
private school drama
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social commentary
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women's fiction
yale
Product details
- ISBN 9781250384782
- Weight: 541g
- Dimensions: 174 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2025
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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William 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. Meanwhile, he looks for any string to pull to get his maddeningly indifferent daughter Ginny into Yale. Ellie, his wife, is a Kentucky-raised newcomer to New York who only wants to fit in, and 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.
Things turn upside down when the girls' exclusive school gets its first trans student and she mysteriously disappears, a frenzied search begins and 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.
Scott Johnston has spoken to a variety of private clubs (Racquet, Colony, Southampton), institutions (eg, the Courdert Institute) and university groups (Jefferson Council of UVA). He's appeared on a number of podcasts, including 'The Eric Metaxas Show' and 'The Tucker Carlson Podcast', and is an adjunct professor at Yale University in the Economics Department.
Previously the author of the best-seller Campusland (currently in development for television), SCOTT 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 and co-founded and subsequently sold two tech startups. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and blogs frequently about educational issues at the Naked Dollar.
