I Left My Homework in the Hamptons

By Blythe Grossberg

I Left My Homework in the Hamptons - Blythe Grossberg
  • Release Date: 2021-08-17
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 59 Ratings

Description

A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan’s elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth both helps and harms the children of the one percent.

Ben orders daily room service while living in a five-star hotel. Olivia collects luxury brand sneakers worn by celebrities. Dakota jets off to Rome when she needs to avoid drama at school.

Welcome to the inner circle of New York’s richest families, where academia is an obsession, wealth does nothing to soothe status anxiety and parents will try just about anything to gain a competitive edge in the college admissions rat race.

When Blythe Grossberg first started as a tutor and learning specialist, she had no idea what awaited her inside the high-end apartments of Fifth Avenue. Children are expected to be as efficient and driven as CEOs, starting their days with 5:00 a.m. squash practice and ending them with late-night tutoring sessions. Meanwhile, their powerful parents will do anything to secure one of the precious few spots at the Ivy Leagues, whatever the cost to them or their kids.

Through stories of the children she tutors that are both funny and shocking, Grossberg shows us the privileged world of America’s wealthiest families and the systems in place that help them stay on top.

Reviews

  • Great read

    5
    By anon123459383639
    Fascinating look into how empty and like Gatsby the lives of elite New Yorkers can be.
  • Incredible, very revealing and well written

    5
    By Rukiya777
    Couldn't put it down. Writing style is so personal it's like you're reading her diary. Enlightening and intimate
  • Exhausting references to literature

    4
    By teeeeeeeeeeeekle
    The repetitive references to specific works of literature and characters is excessive and exhausting. The author seems to assume all readers are familiar with these novels and storylines (in a way that is somewhat ironic)…