The Ivy Chronicles

Fans of New York Times best-seller The Nanny Diaries will rejoice in this wickedly hilarious novel. Ivy Ames loses her job and husband in the same day. To pay for her daughters' private schooling, she starts a new business helping wealthy Manhattanites get their rEsumE-toting youngsters into the best kindergartens. Soon her clients include media moguls, mob bosses and a lesbian couple that believes their adopted African-American disabled son is "the triple crown of diversity," who schools will clamor to enroll. Prepare to laugh uncontrollably-and possibly be a little frightened-by this witty look at our sometimes preposterous society.