"Kath is curious," observes her younger brother, Ethan, not without anxiety. She is thirteen; already everyone can see she's got her eye on bigger things than provincial Fresno can offer. Years in the glamorous chill of an East Coast prep school will introduce her to a razor-sharp sense of social distinction, cocaine "so good it's pink," and an indispensable best friend-all that she needs to prepare for life in Manhattan. There will be fourteen-dollar...
I am an old fart who loves to read and have the time to do so. Well I loved the style, the content and all of it. Refreshing to see a new and talented writer with wit and humor. Keep going Katherine, if you can keep an old guy interested from front to back cover in the adventures of a mid twenties jet setter, just imagine your potential audience. Loved it
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Though I'm more prone to picking up a mystery novel than I am to reading satire about the globetrotting tales of a woman who is a 20-something Manhattan MFA grad, this book had me laughing out loud. The pace is quick, as is the wit. I can't wait to see how Taylor follows up this great book! Thanks for the great read. Brent (B. Billy) Curtis Secluded Parking - Official ABNA Entrant
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This funny, lively, sharply observed book satisfies on all levels. Taylor takes the picaresque approach in updating the comedy-of-manners genre for our own time as we follow one young woman's education in the ways of the world through fifteen years' worth of adventures in the high life, the low life, and points in between. Taylor gives us the parties, the heartbreaks, the perils of too much money and not enough money, the...
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I can't wait to get back to this book. I started reading it this weekend and it is amazing how it feels like I am talking right to the author. She is witty and real and interesting and it has been a LONG time since a book sucked me in so quickly and had me excited about picking it up again at my first free moment.
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To be honest, this book is out of my usual genre, I only read it because I was trying to cozy up to a Woman who I noticed was reading it. My tactic failed, the book did not. This author has the ability to lull you into what you think will be a stylistic and breezy read, and then without changing style or demeanor, she somehow drops an anvil on your head. I'd say she has a real talent for communicating life's follies,...
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