“Delicious decadent and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha
Elias.”—Kirsten Miller author of The Change A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA
moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach Pink Glass Houses is very Big Little Lies
and Pineapple Street but with diamonds a tan and a glass of rosé. There’s a reason people
call Miami Beach “a sunny place for shady people.” Welcome to Sunset Academy the most coveted
elementary school in Miami Beach where there are three categories of families: rich wealthy
and ultra-wealthy. Perfectly tanned and smiling Charlotte Giordani is Sunset Academy’s alpha
mom. With a sleek blowout and relentless charm Charlotte’s brashness serves her well. She’s up
for election as the PTA president and is riding high having just secured a massive donation
from billionaire Don Walker and his socialite wife Patricia. Don and Patricia are
philanthropists media darlings and the owners of Villa Rosé a newly built modern glass house
that everyone is talking about. (It’s either spectacular or a tacky eyesore depending on how
you feel about billionaires.) Enter Melody Howard a wide-eyed transplant from Wichita Kansas.
At first a skeptic about Miami Beach and its endlessly hashtaggable social scene Melody finds
herself sucked into the glossy frenetic world of Sunset Academy moms. Melody’s easygoing
manner and background in nonprofit management make her an asset to the PTA. But when she
emerges as a rival for the PTA presidency Charlotte begins to unravel. Even the most powerful
players on the social scene prove to be vulnerable when an investigation into white-collar
crime—triggered by another school mom the formidable Jamaican-American Judge Carol
Lawson—threatens to take down the whole institution. No amount of rosé can soothe tensions as
the drama builds to a shocking crisis point. Told in rotating first person voices Pink Glass
Houses is an irresistibly voyeuristic peek into the lives of the rich and infamous where
cocaine playdates $100 000 kiddie birthday parties and relentless social climbing are a way
of life. "Asha Elias takes us on a wildly entertaining journey into the seamy underbelly of
Miami Beach — the glamorous cutthroat scandalous and sometimes deadly world of (I’m not
making this up) elementary-school fundraising." -- New York Times bestselling author Dave Barry
