The Ivy ChroniclesThe Ivy Chronicles
a Novel
Title rated 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11 ratings(11 ratings)
Book, 2005
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Current format, Book, 2005, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsWhen turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds sheÂs been downsized from her high-powered corporate job andher marriage, she swiftly realizes that sheÂs going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. At first she does the obvious thing: she panics. Then she decides to put her years of marketing savvy to work and dreams up a brilliant new business - helping upscale New Yorkers get their little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city.Ivy enters a parent-eat-parent world where the egos are directly proportional to their owners enormous incomes, peopled by her only-in-Manhattan clients, including: - Lilith Radmore-Stein, a newspaper mogul who is willing risk her entire empire in a demented effort to get her son admitted to Harvard Day - Omar Kutcher (ÂKutcher the ButcherÂ), a cold-blooded mob boss who seeks IvyÂs counsel on whether to bump off or pay off the powers-that-be to get his Âlittle pistol into the cityÂs best all-girls Catholic school - Stu Needleman, IvyÂs most obnoxious client, who threatens to ruin her if she wonÂt help his four-year-old unibrowed daughter cheat on her kindergarten entrance exam - Willow Bliss and Tiny Herrera, the biracial lesbian parents of an adopted wheelchair-bound black child who is the Âtriple crown of diversity that every school will covet From the backstabbers of corporate America to the leading toddlers of Fifth Avenue, The Ivy Chroniclesis more than an insiderÂs look at this elite and utterly preposterous universe. It is also a tale of midlife reinvention and unexpected romance - for anyone who has ever lost what she holds dear and had to start over again.
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