Book description
When Katie Kitrell is shipped off to boarding school by her distant
father and overbearing mother, it doesn't take her long to become part
of the It Crowd. She's smart, she's cute, and she's an Olympic-bound
swimmer who has a first class ticket to any Ivy League school of her
choice. But what her new friends, roommate, and boyfriend don't know
is that Katie is swimming away from her past, and from the
schizophrenic older brother, Will, who won't let her go. As Katie's
star rises, her brother descends deeper into insanity. And when he
does the unthinkable, it's all Katie can do to keep her head above water.
BREATHLESS is the kind of story that I had hoped Curtis Sittenfeld's
PREP was going to be.
JESSICA WARMAN is the
author of Walker s Breathless and the forthcoming Where
the Truth Lies. She has an MA in creative writing and
studied at prep school and Yale. She is in her twenties, a marathon
runner, and a mother of two young girls. She lives in Pittsburgh,
PA.
