From Publishers Weekly
It's Girls of the Ivy League
by a girl of the Ivy League--or at least that's what readers might think at first glance. The reality is a bit more tongue-in-cheek, though not quite a step up in class. Krinsky, student author of a biweekly sex column for the
Yale Daily News, writes what she knows with this tale of the adventures of the author of a biweekly sex column for the
Yale Daily News. Her fictional stand-in, Chloe Carrington, is a native New Yorker and acts the part--even when she's forced to leave a party clad only in a garbage bag, she manages to accessorize with "two-hundred-dollar lime green heels and large gold earrings." It's adventures like this that she reflects on in her column, entertaining many (Krinsky's real-life column gets 350,000 Web hits a week) and disgusting others. Among her critics is anonymous YaleMale05, with whom she embarks on a flirtatious e-mail relationship. It's hard to blame her for fixating on a cybercrush when she has such a hard time finding a good man. Sure, she hooks up with guys all the time (to her Israeli-American mother's horror: "Oy vavoy"), but finding the right one is a different story. A small crisis of conscience after an especially scandalous blow-job column adds a (tiny) bit of moral drama, but this is mostly a series of tired college party anecdotes, punctuated by Krinsky's real-life columns.
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From Booklist
Yale senior Krinsky writes a popular sex-advice column in the
Yale Daily News, so it's no surprise that her debut novel chronicles the adventures of a Yale senior who writes a sex column. Personal experience certainly pays off: her view of college life is fresh and honest. Her fictional alter-ego, Chloe Carrington, gleans material from her own relationships and those of her friends. She finds that sex is a touchy subject that wins her admirers and critics both. Her depictions of sex--usually the clumsy maneuverings attached to early relationships--are more comical than racy. This novel ends up being more about friendship and self-discovery than sex, a la
Sex in the City. With the national attention Krinsky's column has garnered, readers will probably be on the lookout for the book to hit the shelves, and they'll find a sweet and funny take on fledging relationships of all kinds.
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