Girls with Bright Futures

Details:

• author: Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman
• full title: Girls with Bright Futures
• narrator: Mia Barron
  
• genre: women's fiction
  
• topics: #family, #education, #college, #daughters, #relationships
  
• publisher: Recorded Books
  
• publish date: 02.02.2021
  
• timing: 11:15:00
  

My Rating of the Audiobook:

• content: 💙💙💙💙
  
• narration: 💙💙💙💙

 

Goodreads

Excerpt from the book:

"Kelly also recorded the detailed maneuverings of the EBA moms who like her, had few other options except to throw their precious resources at building their kids' college résumés and pray they were enough. There was the mom who'd started a nonprofit to teach kids to knit in Kathmandu and named her daughter president. There was the mom who'd sent her son kicking and screaming to Oxford last summer to take a crash course in Latin and Greek mythology to augment his classics cred. There was the mom who'd stalked a Harvard biology professor for internship opportunities for her budding scientist every summer since seventh grade. But Kelly really had to hand it to the enterprising mom who'd turn her daughter into an Instagram influencer with more than six hundred thousand followers and the ability to command upward of $5,000 per post, which would probably pay for a hundred years of college."

Audio Excerpt:

 

 

My Thoughts:  

 

Girls with Bright Futures is a story about three mothers and three daughters. Three Stanford applications, but just one spot. What will a mother do to get her daughter the education she thinks she deserves?

I'm usually not into woman's fiction books, but this one I enjoyed a lot. It kept me engaged all the time. I liked the narration, it was nice to listen to, and she did well with all the characters in this book.

 

About the Authors 

 

Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman have been great friends for over 20 years. Their friendship has sustained them through the ups and downs of raising kids, juggling careers, and creating new family traditions. GIRLS WITH BRIGHT FUTURES, their debut novel, is a dark, suspenseful journey into the cutthroat world of college admissions that will release on February 2nd, 2021. Between the two of them, they have undergraduate degrees from Princeton University and the University of Michigan, a law degree from UC Berkeley, careers in marketing, non-profit leadership and biotechnology law, two husbands, and four kids (three of whom have survived the college admissions process without a single parent landing in jail).