the women in the castle by jessica shattuck

Here are the insightful lines I appreciated: The front cover is a bit of a mismatch: the home is on a large lot next to a golf course, not on a residential street. It was not the ending I expected, even though I didn't expect a 'happy ending'. This book was so boring but luckily it wasn't too long, so I didn't have to suffer forever or else I probably wouldn't have finished. And a friend of the older twin brothers, whom we never see on the page, likes the daughter and hangs around a lot, but I have no idea why. Some filmmaker is in town for the summer, wanting to make a doco on rich people or something, but that part of the story like goes nowhere. The father knocked up the baby-sitter, who comes to live with them again at the end of the book, but she is not in the middle of the story at all. Her younger brother lives at the house and even though he is only 10, somehow he takes care of himself most of the time. Her mother lives down in NYC because they are divorced and she is crazy now. Her father like works all day, but who knows doing what.

Daughter comes back to her dad's big house in the country after finishing college at Harvard. And nothing interesting happened AT ALL in this book.

Rich people are sooo annoying when nothing interesting happens. Opening a window into a family's repressed desires and fears, The Hazards of Good Breeding is a startlingly perceptive comedy of manners that heralds a new writer of dazzling talent. Caroline's little brother, Eliot, is working on a giant papier-m�che diorama of their town-or is he hatching a plan of larger proportions? As the real reason for Rosita's departure is revealed, the novel culminates in a series of events that assault the fragile, sheltered, and arguably obsolete world of the Dunlaps. Her father, the eccentric, puritanical Jack Dunlap, is carrying on stoically after the breakup of his marriage, but he can't stop thinking of Rosita, the family housekeeper he fired almost six months ago. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined.

Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. This 'richly appointed and generously portrayed' (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in.

The women in the castle by jessica shattuck