My New American Life (2011)

Authors: Francine Prose

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“The pictures had looked real enough, but still she half expected Alice Ames to be a boarded-up storefront in a mall. She’d seen a TV program about a fake online college that promised to prepare kids for medical school and stole their parents’ life savings. It had tickled her to see Americans taken in by the sort of scam people thought happened only in Eastern Europe. If she had a dollar for every La Changita customer who told her about not being allowed to drive his rental car to Prague because... it might get stolen, she wouldn’t have had to work there. But now that she’d come to care about Zeke and Mister Stanley, she’d lost the ironic remove from which she watched Americans get conned, and she hoped that Alice Ames was not a dirty trick cynically named after some grifter’s favorite hooker.
They were halfway to the college on the day of the tea when Mister Stanley slowed down and said, “Wait. I’m remembering something. The college had some problem.MoreLess Read More Read Less