Becky Miller lives in the best neighborhood, goes to school with the children of movie stars, and has her psychiatrist on speed dial. She may live in the City of Angels, but this sixteen-year-old's life is far from perfect. 
By day, Becky navigates the halls of one of L.A.'s most elite schools, where the mean girls are a special breed of mean, and at night, she deals with sparring parents, a grandmother who is man-crazy, and a younger brother, Jack, who answers only to J-zizzy. As Becky's life comes crashing down around her, she struggles to put it back together and learn to grow up while trying to stay sane.
Isabel Kaplan dishes the dirt on the children of Hollywood's elite—from Spago delivered to campus at lunch and shrinks who dole out psychotropic drugs as though they're candy to parent-free parties at the Four Seasons—the lives of Becky and her creator, Isabel Kaplan, are like no other, and yet strangely, just like everyone's.

Hancock Park: A Novel

Teen & Young Adult

Kaplan, Isabel

Literature & Fiction

Harper-Teen

Becky Miller lives in the best neighborhood, goes to school with the children of movie stars, and has her psychiatrist on speed dial. She may live in the City of Angels, but this sixteen-year-old’s life is far from perfect. By day, Becky navigates the halls of one of L.A.’s most eliteschools, and at night she deals with sparring parents—all without the help of her best friend, who just moved across the country. So when the coolest girls in school suddenly take an interest in her, Becky hopes her life is about to take a turn for the fabulous.Written by someone who has seen it all, Hancock Park follows the crazy lives of Hollywood teens, as one girl tries to stay sane in the middle of it all.

Hancock Park

HarperTeen

NSFW: A Novel

Amazon.com Review\nAn Amazon Best Book of July 2022: Compelling contradictions abound in Isabel Kaplan’s novel NSFW, which sucks you in from the start. Take the co-dependent relationship the unnamed female protagonist has with her stoned mother, a famous women’s rights lawyer who forced her daughter on a diet at age 10. Or the slacker male executive who calls in sick with a hang nail, and gets promoted shortly after. The hero of this novel isn’t a hero at all—she’s a relatable young millennial trying to make her way in the world before there was #MeToo language to describe the subtle (and not-so-subtle) double standards women face, set against the backdrop of a Hollywood gig “people would kill for”—that’s not so glamorous when you pull back the curtain. I’ve been counting down the days for this book to be released so I have more people with whom to discuss the cliffhanger ending, which I can’t stop thinking about. —Lindsay Powers, Amazon Editor\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “An intoxicating exploration of male-dominated workplaces . . . NSFW is gripping, with a lot to unpack, making it excellent book-club fodder.”―TIME\nBlisteringly sharp and hypersmart―meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul.\nFrom the outside, the unnamed protagonist in NSFW appears to be the vision of success. She has landed an entry-level position at a leading TV network that thousands of college grads would kill for. And sure, she has much to learn. The daughter of a prominent feminist attorney, she grew up outside the industry. But she’s resourceful and hardworking. What could go wrong?\nAt first, the high adrenaline work environment motivates her. Yet as she climbs the ranks, she confronts the reality of creating change from the inside. Her points only get attention when echoed by male colleagues; she hears whispers of abuse and sexual misconduct. Her mother says to keep her head down until she’s the one in charge―a scenario that seems idealistic at best, morally questionable at worst. When her personal and professional lives collide, threatening both the network and her future, she must decide what to protect: the career she’s given everything for or the empowered woman she claims to be.\nFusing page-turning prose with dark humor and riveting commentary on the truths of starting out professionally, Isabel Kaplan’s NSFW is an unflinching exploration of the gray area between empowerment and complicity. The result is a stunning portrait of what success costs in today’s patriarchal world, asking us: Is it ever worth it?

Humor & Entertainment

Henry Holt and Co.

Holt Paperbacks

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