Class

For Karen Kipple, it isn't enough to work full-time in the nonprofit sector for an organization that helps children from disadvantaged home. She's also determined to live her personal life in accordance with her ideals. This means sending her daughter, Ruby, to an integrated public school in their Brooklyn neighborhood. But when a troubled student from a nearby housing project beings bullying children in Ruby's class, the distant social and economic issues Karen has always claimed to care about so passionately begin to feel uncomfortably close to home.

A daring, discussable satire about gentrification and liberal hypocrisy, Class is also a smartly written story that reveals how life as we live it - not as we like to imagine it - often unfolds in gray areas.