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A season of ‘Real Housewives’ dressed in literary clothing 🍍
This book took me ages to get into. I was misled by the expectation of an entertaining “rich people behaving badly“ family drama, but it turned out to be more of a season of ‘Real Housewives‘ dressed in literary clothing. I restarted it several times, but the beginning was tedious and I only managed to finish it when I came down with a summer flu and was off work for a full week. It’s light, it’s nicely written, it’s a well-observed genre piece on the WASPy one-percenters of New York City. However, I missed a real plotline and I couldn’t connect with most of the characters–I only really enjoyed Georgiana. There was a glimmer of hope for Darley and Sasha to undergo some character development too, but sady, no. The book also touched on a few socio-cultural issues, but never explored them in depth. I’m aware it’s loaded with interpretation an subliminal messages between the lines, but ultimately, it felt like the result of fairly rich white people writing about absurdly rich white people. And likely read mostly by that same group. Lovely.
16. Juli 2025
A season of ‘Real Housewives’ dressed in literary clothing 🍍
This book took me ages to get into. I was misled by the expectation of an entertaining “rich people behaving badly“ family drama, but it turned out to be more of a season of ‘Real Housewives‘ dressed in literary clothing. I restarted it several times, but the beginning was tedious and I only managed to finish it when I came down with a summer flu and was off work for a full week. It’s light, it’s nicely written, it’s a well-observed genre piece on the WASPy one-percenters of New York City. However, I missed a real plotline and I couldn’t connect with most of the characters–I only really enjoyed Georgiana. There was a glimmer of hope for Darley and Sasha to undergo some character development too, but sady, no. The book also touched on a few socio-cultural issues, but never explored them in depth. I’m aware it’s loaded with interpretation an subliminal messages between the lines, but ultimately, it felt like the result of fairly rich white people writing about absurdly rich white people. And likely read mostly by that same group. Lovely.
16. Juli 2025







