Gilded Age: A Novel

From the bestselling author of Alchemy of a Blackbird comes a powerful retelling of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth following a woman’s return to the hothouse of Cleveland society that revives rivalries, raises eyebrows, and reveals the tender vulnerabilities of her struggle to reconcile her desire for independence and her need for love.

Clevelanders of a certain class are expected to leave home for college, find a spouse, then return home to raise their children in the social milieu they...