Morningside Heights is like a really good Woody Allen movie. Like Hannah and Her Sisters when he was still good. It's about fairly well off established academics/ musicians/artists living in Manhattan in a neighborhood near Columbia with a lot of similar like minded people. The tension of the book is the threat of one of the families potentially having to move to ---gasp---the suburbs because they just can't afford the city life any more, i.e. Rich People's problems. What saves this from being rather unsympathetic and unappealing is Mendelson's writing. She is a lovely clean writer with a ---dare I use so hackneyed a description?---a Jane Austen-like ability for observation of a certain type of people from a certain type of social class. I really loved this book.
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