First published 2015
Evelyn Beegan lands a job at an exclusive social network in 2006 Manhattan. At 26, she recruits wealthy members while fighting her social climbing mother's influence. The work throws her into a world of Adirondack camps and Southampton clubs filled with socialites and Wall Street types. Evelyn has always felt like an outsider among her privileged peers, but now she starts pretending to be old money herself. The belonging feels intoxicating. Then her father, a class action lawyer, gets indicted for bribery. Evelyn watches her family fall apart while she desperately maintains her new facade. She grasps for status as the financial world around her heads toward collapse. The story captures a young woman torn between authenticity and acceptance in a city about to crash.
Genres: fiction, romance, literary-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, social-status
Setting: Adirondack, Manhattan, Southampton
Period: 2006
384 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press