6/1/2023 0 Comments Bad kitty jaffe“The Best of Everything” is not really a trashy book at all. At least I wasn’t going through the garbage, but that was only because it hadn’t turned out to be necessary.” The day after reading that throwaway line, I went to the Strand and bought a copy of Rona Jaffe’s book. “I even knew which trashy novel I felt like a character in, which made it worse: The Best of Everything. “I felt like a character in a trashy novel,” Ephron writes. My bedroom was so cramped that the most comfortable reading position involved lying on the bed and dangling my feet out the adjacent window I spent an entire summer that way, reading Nora Ephron’s 1983 novel, “ Heartburn.” Ephron’s narrator, a jilted food writer named Rachel Samstat, finds herself rummaging through her soon-to-be-ex-husband’s credit-card bills for evidence that he is cheating on her. I was in my early twenties at the time, also working in publishing, and also living in a crummy New York City apartment. The first time I heard of “ The Best of Everything,” Rona Jaffe’s 1958 novel about a gaggle of striving twentysomething women working in publishing and living in crummy New York City apartments, it was as a brief mention in the pages of another book.
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