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My friend LM and I both decided to read this book set in New York City during 1938.  When we finished, we both said, “Man, I wish I was a witty girl.”  While reading this book, you want to become Katey Kontent, the protagonist.  As she navigates 1938, she confronts new friendships, love, loss, scandals, etc.  I’ve been in a Great Gatsby sort of mood, so this book was the perfect solution, rather than reading The Great Gatsby for the millionth time.

From amazon.com:

This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. 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. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.