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A young woman who works at a tech startup tries to shoehorn her way into new yorks high society. Author stephanie clifford tells us about her new book everybody rise. A magna cum laude graduate of harvard, she grew up in seattle and lives in brooklyn. Stephanie clifford a whole bunch of new york times stories i just covered a big mafia trial, which centered around some of the events in goodfellas, which. Bracing, hilarious and often poignant, stephanie cliffords debut offers a thoroughly modern take on classic american themes money, ambition, family, friendship and on the universal longing to fit in. A sparkling debut that is full of ambition and grit emma straub, stephanie clifford s everybody rise is a story about identity and loss, and how sometimes we have to lose everything to find our way back to who we really are.
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