01891cam a2200361 i 4500 1164857988 TxAuBib 20210107120000.0 190827s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019038097 9781984880277 hardcover 1984880276 hardcover (OCoLC)1117319969 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO BDX YDX CNWPU IK2 OCLCF ILC OCLCO LIV OCLCO NZAUC YU6 OCLCO UOK TxAuBib rda Conell, Lee, 1987-, author. The party upstairs / Lee Conell. New York : Penguin Press, 2020. 308 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Ruby grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that gets more gentrified with each passing year. Her friendship with Caroline, the daughter of affluent tenants, and the neighborhood's location brought certain advantages. Ruby took out loans to attend a prestigious small liberal arts college but now is no closer to her dream job and is forced to move back in with her parents. Tonight Caroline is throwing a party in her father's glorious penthouse apartment, which Ruby anticipates and dreads in equal measure. After an argument with her father, the façade that masks the building's power structure will have burned away.-- adapted from jacket. 20210107. Apartment houses Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Social conflict Fiction. Janitors Fiction. Upper West Side (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. TXKIP