House of Mirth. By Edith Wharton.
It’s late 19th century NYC, and you’re a youngish beautiful woman with few $ assets, and you’ve managed to live off higher society while avoiding getting married, but this arrangement starts to come to a sudden end; you are confident you can save yourself, but you’d somehow missed how powerless you’d be if others had other uses for you.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
CW: antisemitism
