I give this book top-star billing because I have not laughed out loud while reading a book in quite some time. This one did it for me ~ during a time I really needed to laugh! Author Schine is a wise and very witty woman and I am so glad I happened upon this novel, so I can read more of her books now. I knew it was based on Austen's Sense & Sensibility - an updated version (classy West Side NYC & Westport, CT) - but it played out so well in this setting: upper-middle-class, well-bred Jewish women - it stands beautifully on its own. Couldn't have been a better choice regarding the folly and foibles of the hapless Weismann women, who handle their sudden change in fortune with humor & grace. Their love interests (a young preppy actor, an aging charismatic author, a kind, "semi-retired" lawyer) balance things out in the end... one of the best Austen adaptations I have read.
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