Summer at Tiffany
Book description
New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first…
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1 author picked Summer at Tiffany as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is so light-as-air that I’ve read it several times and forgotten it entirely in between readings, so it’s always new again. Two 21-year-old friends from Iowa travel to New York City for a summer working at Tiffany’s in 1945, just as World War II is ending. It’s a summer of jewelry, dating, Broadway shows, riding on open-top buses, and a plane that crashes into the Empire State Building.
It’s the perfect beach read; you can probably polish it off in one sun-drenched afternoon.
From Kay's list on women leaving home to find success in the big city.
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