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Her own daughter...one of the popular girls? On the first day of middle school, Lydia Meadows, a former lawyer turned full-time mother, is startled to discover that her daughter Erin is one of the popular girls, a tight foursome whose mothers are also great friends. Lydia has always thought of popular girls as ambitious little manipulators who enjoy being cruel. But Erin is kind and well-adjusted. Maybe this popularity thing won't be so bad after all.
Then a new student ruthlessly targets Erin to boost her own popularity, and Lydia helplessly wonders what to do when her daughter's phone stops ringing. And the uneasiness among the girls begins to affect the friendship of the mothers—even though they are all grown women who should know better. Has their driven energy, once directed toward their careers, turned into an obsession with the social lives of their daughters?
A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity is a delightful novel of manners, an unabashed chronicle of the rules, rituals, and pitfalls of raising a daughter.
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Gary Conrad
reviewed Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity on August 04, 2011
Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity
Four suburban "soccer moms" and their middle-school-aged daughters struggle to figure out where they belong as their friendships fall apart over due to significant shifts in each of their status, power and popularity.
I live in the same location as the characters in this book and when I read the book I had two middle-school-aged daughters enrolled in a local Independent School. My kids played sports against many of the schools mentioned in this book.
Relational aggression seems to invoke more emotional and academic difficulties for girls in middle school than any other age group. There are a number of popular press articles, books, and movies that have focused on the issue of relational aggression in girls: Queen Bees and Wannabes and Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, being the most notable.
I was really hoping the plot of this novel would realistically depict what happens to girls during these changes in middle school, as well as how things change afterwards. Unfortunately, this books wraps everything up in the most perfect pristine bow, it all felt way too cute and way too artificial.
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