Guidelines of Civility: A Novel

From the New York Instances-bestselling creator of A Gentleman in Moscow and the forthcoming The Lincoln Freeway, a “sharply trendy” (Boston Globe) guide about a younger girl in post-Melancholy period New York who abruptly finds herself thrust into excessive society—now with over a million readers worldwide

On the final night time of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Gray, a good-looking banker, occurs to sit down down on the neighboring desk. This opportunity encounter and its startling penalties propel Katey on a year-long journey into the higher echelons of New York society—the place she could have little to depend on apart from a bracing wit and her personal model of cool nerve.

With its glowing depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely interesting characters, Guidelines of Civility received the hearts of readers and critics alike.