A review by glabeson
Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee

4.0

I really enjoyed this, more than I expected to, not being its target audience. I hadn't really thought about how well a classic like Anna Karenina could translate into a young adult novel until they discussed it on Novel Pairings podcast, but I agree that perhaps no other time in modern life is social stratification so prominent than high school (which probably speaks to too much insularity in adult life). This is amplified even more so by following the social lives of the 1%er teens in New York --it was like Gossip Girl meets Anna Karenina. I loved the clever ways Lee modernized some of the original plot points and also find it disappointing that the criticisms of social norms of the 1870s are still timely today.