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The Best of Everything

Ava Stern

The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe is a transformative glimpse into the lives of 1950s working women in New York City. I loved the characterization and the different perspectives throughout the novel. As Jaffe switches between the four main women, the reader gets an inside look into their different yet similar lives, whether it be as a working professional in publishing, as a prospective wife, or even a mother.


This novel felt like an even-realer version of Sex and the City. As a Carrie Bradshaw fangirl, I loved the way that I could follow Caroline through her career as well as her dating endeavors and her relationships with the other women. I aspire to work in New York at a publishing company and this book really gave me the tools to romanticize the hell out of it. Obviously today is quite different from when this book is set (rent is definitely not $300) but the premise of being a woman still is the same.

The Best of Everything is one of my favorite books of the summer and pushed me to find other books similar. With "prose as sharp as a paper cut," this novel combined my favorite elements; chick-lit and impeccable writing. I added this book to my list of "girl books."


"They were running then, hand in hand, across the street and through the empty canyons between the dark building, like children, their footsteps echoing in the summer night. The sky was a very dark blue-black, streaked with white clouds and stabbed with stars, a display of nighttime pyrotechnics," (Pg 267).

I suddenly feel the urge to run through NYC streets in kitten heels and a broad smile painted on my face.

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