True Prep

Love it

If you are like me, the 'Official Preppy Handbook' was your 'bible' to the Prep world. It came out my freshman year at Princeton, and I was, as a California girl, inducted into a world of all things Prep. Even now, I see how, as a multicultural WOC, my family, descended on my father's side from a WASP Pennsylvanian Quaker who built safe houses on the Underground Railroad, the Prep aesthetic permeates the core values of my family; my son is a fifth-generation college graduate (from UNC - Chapel Hill. How Prep is THAT?) Anyhow, I enjoyed the update. Most people agree that the Original was superbly funny (really, a hoot!); I thing that the all grown up version is still funny, but, perhaps, more reflective of a world gone by, while showing the more inclusive side of Prepdom, keeping in mind that there are some African-American preps that blow the lid off some average white folk (yes, you KNOW this is true; why, my father even drove his RV to Maine, and, yes of course, he went to the flagship L.L. Bean!) After all, this book reminds you that Prepdom is a state of mind!