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Brooks Rattigan longs to escape his working-class New Jersey roots. Trying to raise cash for an SAT tutor, Brooks stumbles into an unusual but lucrative gig: he becomes an escort-for-hire for wealthy teen girls. Formal dates become episodic misadventures along Brooks's path to Columbia University. Brooks is a brashly funny narrator, but characterization beyond his brazenly single-minded pursuit of the Ivy League is lacking.