“A little gem of a book featured in the Editor's Choice section of NYTimes Book Review. I love the pragmatic even-tempered heroine of the book, who reminisces over the decisions, fate, and surprises in one year of her life - 1938. Towles recreates the vibrant NY scene; the lives, loves, and aspirations of twenty-somethings during the tail-end-of-the-Depression in Manhatten. It's one of those books that makes one wonder what life would have been like, if I had lived in this era.... ”
Geraldine S. Cruz wrote this review Monday, January 21, 2013.
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