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An awesome social satire about the world of WASPs and a wedding on a small island in Cape Cod (the summer home). It's funny and insightful. It's lovely like a cold lemonade on a hot summer day.

"The Van Meters were so charming at first...Winn wore bow ties and pocket squares and attacked all parts of his life with a certainty and precision that Domnique found reassuring. There were no weeds in the Van Meter garden, no unmatched socks in their laundry room. A tennis ball hung from a string in the garage to mark the exact location where the car must be parked. The milk was thrown out the day before it expired. Yet everything they did - played tennis, cooking dinner, making friends, getting dressed - seemed effortless. Years had to pass before Dominique could see the strain they placed on themselves or, rather, what their grand goal was. They wanted to be aristocrats in a country that was not supposed to have an aristocracy, that was, in fact, founded partly as a protest against hereditary power."

I wish I had waited and read this before I was going to a wedding or making a trip to Cape Cod (or in an ideal world, a combination of both). I would also encourage pairing it with Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor as a way of better understanding the world that Winn Van Meter is so tied to and the world his younger daughter in part does not understand and wants to escape. It would also pair nicely with That Old Cape Magic.