Chosen as one of Summer's Best
Books by People Magazine
Featured in Time Magazine's Summer Reading
Entertainment Weekly's Summer Must List
Good Housekeeping Beach Reads Feature
Featured in Time Magazine's Summer Reading
Entertainment Weekly's Summer Must List
Good Housekeeping Beach Reads Feature
“Finally, a novel that admits
‘making it’ isn't just a makeover away.” -Vanity Fair
Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn Beegan
intended to free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who
propelled her through prep school and onto New York’s stately Upper East Side.
Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she
lands a job at a social-network startup aimed at the elite, she has no choice
but to infiltrate their world. Soon she finds herself navigating the promised
land of Adirondack camps, Hamptons beach houses, and, of course, the island of
Manhattan itself. Intoxicated by the wealth, access, and influence of her new
set, Evelyn can’t help but try to pass as old money herself. But when the lies
become more tangled, she grasps with increasing desperation as the ground
beneath her begins to give way.
A sparkling debut that is “full
of ambition and grit” (Emma Straub), Stephanie Clifford's Everybody
Rise is a story about identity and loss, and how sometimes we have to lose
everything to find our way back to who we really are.
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About the Author:
As a New York Times reporter, Loeb-award winning journalist
Stephanie Clifford covered courts, business and media. Everybody Rise, her
first book, was a New York Times bestseller, with movie rights optioned by Fox
2000. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, she grew up in Seattle and lives
in Brooklyn.
My notes on my bio: It doesn't
rain that much In Seattle. In fact, it rarely rains hard enough that an
umbrella is required, hence the city's happy embrace of rain gear for all
occasions. (Raincoats + formal dresses = totally acceptable.) I spent most of
my time at Harvard at the paper, living on late-night Doritos from the vending
machine. Some of my favorite Times stories are here, and here's one
and here's
another of my favorite Inc. stories (largely because Inc. let
me go to Turkey and China for them). Brooklyn is grand and there are
pockets where it's not that hip; I'm lucky enough to live in one of those, and
near a park, to boot. I live with my husband, 2-year-old son, and our cats, Mac
and Mabel.
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