Rules of Civility / Amor Towles, read by Rebecca Lowman, 335 pp.
In 1938 New York, Katey Kontent works in the typing pool of a Manhattan law firm while making the most of New York nightlife with the other residents of the boardinghouse she dwells in. When she meets a charming and successful young banker, her life course is altered.
On one hand this is Katey's coming of age story, set in lavish period detail. It's also an explicit examination of wealth and its meanings, and how much we should allow materialism to influence our choices, which strikes me as thematically similar to Towles' second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow.
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