Chosen as one of Summers Best Books by People MagazineFeatured in Time Magazines Summer ReadingEntertainment Weeklys Summer Must ListGood Housekeeping Beach Reads FeatureA masterful tale of social climbing and entrenched class distinctions, as seen through the eyes of an outsider who desperately wants in. Tense, hilarious, and bursting with gorgeous language. Stephanie Clifford is a 21st-century Edith Wharton. -J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The EngagementsIts 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and glamorous. Money and class are colliding in a city that is about to go over a financial precipice and take much of the country with it. At 26, bright, funny and socially anxious Evelyn Beegan is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto the Upper East Side.
