
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
National Bestseller
ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED READS—New York Times, Vulture, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, and more
From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.
The Biedermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student.
The residents give up breakfast, juggle competing jobs at rival presses, abandon their children, get laid off from the telephone company, attempt to retrain as stenographers, all with the shared awareness that their days as an institution are numbered, and they’d better make the most of it while it lasts.
As trenchant as the novels of Dawn Powell and Rona Jaffe and as immersive as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Lessons in Chemistry, Women’s Hotel is a modern classic—and it is very, very funny.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author’s Note
- Chapter One: The End of Breakfast
- Chapter Two: A Promise to Kitty
- Chapter Three: “He saith among the trumpets, Ha ha”
- Chapter Four: Incomprehensible Demoralization
- Chapter Five: The Last of Ohio
- Chapter Six: A Ginger Ale Dinner
- Chapter Seven: Dressing to Match
- Chapter Eight: A Haircut for Katherine
- Chapter Nine: A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work
- Chapter Ten: Ubi Sunt
- Chapter Eleven: “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
- Chapter Twelve: A Quick Trip Downtown
- Chapter Thirteen: A Midnight Visitor
- Chapter Fourteen: Wedding Season
- Chapter Fifteen: Belling the Cat
- A Note from the Cover Designer
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher