{"product_id":"carnegie-hill-a-novel-1","title":"Carnegie Hill: A Novel","description":"Town \u0026amp; Country Magazine's Must-Read Books of Summer 2019 | She Reads' Best Books for Your Summer Roadtrip\n\n\"Carnegie Hill has got to be one of the most charming, hilarious, and insightful books I've read in ages. When it comes to New York's (often befuddled) elite, Vatner has an eagle eye for detail, and an ear for whip-smart dialogue. This is an assured, heartfelt debut.\" –Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding and Honestly, We Meant Well\n\nDeception is just another day in the lives of the Upper East Side's elite.\n\nAt age thirty-three, Penelope “Pepper” Bradford has no career, no passion and no children. Her intrusive parents still treat her like a child. Moving into the Chelmsford Arms with her fiancé Rick, an up-and-coming financier, and joining the co-op board give her some control over her life―until her parents take a gut dislike to Rick and urge Pepper to call off the wedding. When, the week before the wedding, she glimpses a trail of desperate text messages from Rick’s obsessed female client, Pepper realizes that her parents might be right.\n\nShe looks to her older neighbors in the building to help decide whether to stay with Rick, not realizing that their marriages are in crisis, too. Birdie and George’s bond frays after George is forced into retirement at sixty-two. And Francis alienates Carol, his wife of fifty years, and everyone else he knows, after being diagnosed with an inoperable heart condition. To her surprise, Pepper’s best model for love may be a clandestine gay romance between Caleb and Sergei, a black porter and a Russian doorman.\n\nJonathan Vatner's Carnegie Hill is a belated-coming-of-age novel about sustaining a marriage―and knowing when to walk away. It chronicles the lives of wealthy New Yorkers and the staff who serve them, as they suffer together and rebound, struggle to free themselves from family entanglements, deceive each other out of love and weakness, and fumble their way to honesty.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250174767\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 56JR8Z0003ID_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Vatner, Jonathan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The cover shows normal wear and tear. Some corner dings. The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. The pages show normal wear and tear. This book either has curled pages or is slightly warped. May have varying covers. Fast Shipping - Mailed in plastic mailer!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46615063068849,"sku":"56JR8Z0003ID_ns","price":6.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/1250174767-0.jpg?v=1769276683","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/carnegie-hill-a-novel-1","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}