Admission
From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as The Undoing on HBO), comes a page-turner about a college admissions officer with a secret—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.
For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own ultimate admission.
Admission is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past shake a woman's life to its core.
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Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitz has built a reputation as a writer who knows how to draw readers into the uneasy space between truth and deception, where ambition collides with morality and secrets refuse to stay buried. Her novels often unfold like literary puzzles, inviting readers to question not just her characters’ choices but their own assumptions about storytelling itself.
Born and raised in New York, Korelitz studied at Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge, before settling into a career that bridges both literary and popular fiction. While she has written across genres, her breakout novel The Plot brought her widespread recognition in 2021. The book followed a struggling writer who takes a student’s idea and spins it into a bestselling novel, only to find himself haunted by accusations of theft. Its success introduced many readers to her sharp eye for character and her ability to turn the act of writing itself into a suspense story.
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