This books begins in some charming ways, struggles throughout to maintain some of that early sensibility, but ends strongly with a long section that I enjoyed a lot. Bits and pieces of the rest are simultaneously interesting and conflictingly boring. So the book begins with the record and cataloging of the life of Ruth Puttermesser, a lawyer at a good firm who mostly stays out of the way/is unseen. She avers her mother’s advice to simply get married, has a lover she likes, but doesn’t […]