Īnne and Charles Braithwaite have spent their entire married life in a sedate old apartment building in Morningside Heights, a northern Manhattan neighborhood filled with intellectual, artistic souls like themselves, who thrive on the area’s abundant parks, cultural offferings, and reasonably priced real estate. In the spirit of Anthony Trollope, she roots her story very much in a specific time and place-1999, in an old-fashioned New York City neighborhood that’s becoming rapidly gentrified-and the enormously engaging result resembles a twentieth-century version of The Way We Live Now. Following the tremendous success of her first book, a nonfiction work on housekeeping that became a surprise bestseller, Cheryl Mendelson brings to her debut novel the same intensely readable style that made Home Comforts so popular.
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