num_pages: 311
description: A story about a dangerously curious young undergraduate whose rebelliousness leads her to discover a shocking secret involving an exclusive circle of students . . . and the dark truth beneath her schools promise of prestige.You are in the house and the house is in the woods.You are in the house and the house is in you . . . Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum wildly selective admissions policy and formidable endowment has produced some of the worlds best minds: prize-winning authors artists inventors Supreme Court justices presidents. For those lucky few selected tuition room and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three yearssummers includedcompletely removed from the outside world. Family friends television music even their clothing must be left behind. In return the school promises its graduates a future of sublime power and prestige and that they can become anything or anyone they desire.Among this years incoming class is Ines who expects to trade blurry nights of parties pills cruel friends and dangerous men for rigorous intellectual disciplineonly to discover an environment of sanctioned revelry. The schools enigmatic director Viktria encourages the students to explore to expand their minds to find themselves and their place within the formidable black iron gates of Catherine. For Ines Catherine is the closest thing to a home shes ever had and her serious timid roommate Baby soon becomes an unlikely friend. Yet the Houses strange protocols make this refuge with its worn velvet and weathered leather feel increasingly like a gilded prison. And when Babys obsessive desire for acceptance ends in tragedy Ines begins to suspect that the schoolin all its shabby splendor hallowed history advanced theories and controlled decadencemight be hiding a dangerous agenda that is connected to a secretive tightly knit group of students selected to study its most promising and mysterious curriculum.
language: English
title: Catherine House
publisher: Custom House