A secretary from Queens with impeccable taste navigates 1938 Manhattan society, where everyone is rewriting their own origins and some do it better than others.
About This Book
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want something warm and easy, comfort reading at its best. The writing rewards attention without being demanding, a good balance of depth and readability. The pacing is balanced, time to breathe between moments that matter. Not a book for when you want something that challenges or lingers.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something light and life-affirming, and a read that's balanced and absorbing.
What It Explores
Rules of Civility explores identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, love in its most complicated forms, and power and ambition and what they cost the people who pursue them.
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