If she's fabulous and no one sees it, what's the point? To Lulu Harris-It Girl-in-the-Making-her first year at the ultra-competitive Ivy-like Devon University is a dreary impediment. Her closet isn't big enough for two weeks'-worth of outfits, much less her new Rag & Bone for fall. A wickedly delightful novel that may remind you of Tom Wolfe and David Lodge. Joyous, fast and funny, Scott Johnston's Campusland is a satiric howl at today's elite educational institutions-from safe spaces to tribal infighting to the sheer sanctimony.
Scott Johnston's Campusland is a timely and gleeful skewering of the modern American campus and its tribal culture. In the process, she and Eph will find their fates at odds.Īll paths collide in a riotous climax. When things become socially difficult, Lulu is forced to re-channel her ambition in a most unexpected way - as a militant feminist. She is pleasantly surprised to find some people she can tolerate in the Fellingham Society, a group of self-professed campus monarchists. Her singular ambition is to be a prominent socialite - an "It Girl." While most would kill for a place at Devon, to her college is a dreary impediment. Lulu Harris is an entitled freshman-er, first year-from Manhattan. "This high-spirited, richly imagined, and brave novel is a delight to read. Campusland is a timely and gleeful skewering of the modern American campus and its tribal culture. But when his position is threatened, he must take measures.Īll paths collide in a riotous climax. As the alpha dog atop Devon's progressive hierarchy, Red is the most "woke" guy on campus. In the process, she and Eph will find their fates at odds.Īlso in the mix is Red Wheeler, who is in his seventh year at Devon, and is carefully managing his credits to stay longer. Lulu Harris is an entitled freshman - er, firstyear -from Manhattan. His beloved Devon, though, has become a place of warring tribes, and there are landmines waiting for Eph that he is unequipped to see.
He may look and sound privileged, but Eph is right out of gun-rack, Bible-thumping rural Alabama. A tumultuous and often hilarious first novel about one year of insanity at the Ivy-like Devon University, a blissful bubble of elite students and the adults at their mercy.Įph Russell is an English professor up for tenure.
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