Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman wrote "Girls with Bright Futures" the fictional account of angst and stress of parents trying to get their children into the right universities and they talk about it with Kristi Burns of the Northwest Passages Book Club Thursday, Feb. 19, 2021 on a livestream broadcast. Books mentioned during the conversation include:
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
Short and Tragic Life of Robert Pearce: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be by Frank Bruni
Write Your Way In by Rachel Toor

Books they are reading now:
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Ex Talk by Rachel Solomon
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson