The Best of Everything

Overall I really liked this! In the introduction Jaffe says it's a sociological book, which makes sense, though it makes for a bit of an overly long book. The book follows multiple women (Caroline is the MC if there is one, but there's also Gregg, April, and Barbara) from about January 1952- December 54. They're all from different types of lives, and continue to have very different lives in NYC. The women are all really well done. I didn't love all the adultery, but maybe that's just NYC at this time. It reminded me of Mad Men (the office atmosphere, everyone sleeping around) and The Group. I didn't love that the last chapter was from a man's perspective as it's a book about the women, but I also understand what Jaffe was doing. I'm glad I read this.