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New money will NEVER be on equal footing with old money.  And you can be rich, but that’s not the same as old New York society rich.  Now you’re talking wealth of a whole other level.  If only Evelyn’s mother understood that it’s a social circle you can only be born into.  Perhaps then she would not…

I was a big fan of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette so I was excited to receive an advanced copy of her latest novel, Today Will Be Different.  Unlike Bernadette, in which the story is conveyed through various snippets of correspondence, this one is told in entirely first person.  And what a first person it is.…

In this present day version of Pride and Prejudice, Liz Bennet is a New York magazine journalist who returns to her native Cincinnati to help her mother and four sisters care for her father after a heart attack.  The Bennets are an interesting bunch.  There’s Mrs. Bennet, a women with a shopping addiction, who can…

What happens to cool 90s grungy rockers after the music stops?  They move to Brooklyn, hold steady jobs, and raise children.  Despite “growing up”, Andrew, Elizabeth, and Zoe are former bandmates who have remained the best of friends (and in the case of Andrew and Elizabeth, spouses).  They live next door to each other and…

A sort-of retelling of Snow White

Once thing I’ve learned about India through my literary endeavors is the vast disparity between the lower and middle classes.  In Thrity Umrigar’s novel, these two groups are placed in direct contrast, as seen through the eyes of two women. Bhima lives in a Bombay slum.  She is illiterate and missing two teeth.  She cares for…

Quinn is a 20-something still trying to get her life together.  She hates her job but doesn’t know what else to do, she’s still getting drunk and bringing home strange men, and she subsists on frozen pizza because she doesn’t know how to cook a proper meal.  But when her roommate and best friend, Esther, is…