The Mothers of Country Day

Standardized test fraud, secrets, and scandal at a posh suburban private school...

When Josie Messina’s math wizard 12-year-old son earns a scholarship to one of New Jersey’s toniest private schools, Josie feels blessed but intimidated. Will a hardworking, cash-strapped single mom fit in with the wealthy, fashionable mothers of Little Fawn Country Day?

But when Josie runs into Country Day’s most famous parent, rock legend Billy Stand – known to her as the boy she used to babysit – their embrace in the school parking lot, viewed by three of the school’s most influential social butterflies, rockets Josie to “in crowd” status. What happens next will bring truth to the warning, “Be careful what you wish for.”

Little Fawn Country Day is a hotbed of intrigues, including: a home-wrecking kindergarten teacher, a scheming dad selling shares in a bogus IPO, a desperate college applicant on a hunger strike, and a headmaster who will do anything to fund his school expansion campaign and raise his students’ standardized test scores.

This timely, irreverent send-up of contemporary academia – and the ways of the wicked “one percent” – will delight any parent who has ever been dragged to a PTA fundraiser, has sweated out her children’s grades and college prospects, or who has wondered what, exactly, her kids are learning at school all day.