Book Review: Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton

This is part of the continuing series of random book reviews that'll be nothing like a New York Times book review. Gone is the ten thousand word analysis. Instead, here is a book review like you'd tell your friends.


The book: Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country.

Review:

Okay. I get it. Rich people are annoying. Newly rich people are even more annoying. Divorcing newly rich people are the most annoying of all.

But did you know they can make for a dreadfully annoying plot, too?

Best of all: after 450 pages, you, too, can hope to never find love or financial stability.