Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

In 1938 a born and bred New York woman works in a law firm typing pool and lives with a roommate from the Midwest.  They meet a man one night from high society and for the next couple of years Katey Kontent and her roommate Eve's lives are forever changed.

Katey falls in love with the New York banker and her roommate Eve wants him too.  The banker feels obligated to Eve and Eve as a result of her high society connections ends up dating several of the men she meets.

As Katey reflects on those years, she illustrates how life is not always as it appears in high society.

The author does a great job of describing every single solitary item she comes across in her story.  I almost died from boredom at the description of a desk, Katey's friend Ann was sitting at in one scene.  It's really a lovely story though about nothing else than a year in the life of Katey, with no more point to it then to say, the people we meet in our lives mean something to us and should not be forgotten.   That is a good point to a story but from the books tone, I think the author wanted there to more to it about the rules of civility and high society, yadah yadah yadah.

I admit it, I'm not a scholar and this book is probably considered literature.  It's lost on me.  Guess you really can't take the ghetto out of me.