Seduced by the rapturous reviews of the Three Weissmans of Westport in the NYTBR an emergency off season meeting of the bookgroup was called to order. One member retired to Jackson Hole to read while the other lolled in a red leather chair in the Boston Athenaeum. The conceit is that the book is a homage to Sense and Sensibility with the sisters and mother now wealthy Jewish sisters and recently divorced mother who are forced into 'reduced circumstances'.
Neither illustrious member was much impressed with the book. Both felt that Catherine Schine's tone was off---were you supposed to like the characters and care when she was so obviously condescending to them? If she couldn't be bothered with them why should they? She is clever though and says some funny things they both acceded. Some of the parallels with Sense and Sensibility are fun to catch. But in the end it was no more than chick lit.
However this prophetic group once more expects it to follow the meteoric and inexplicable rise of their other disastrous choices Edward Sawtelle and Eat, Stink, Pray, Love up the NYTBR charts. Not much sense there.
The bookgroup in happier times.....
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