Would recommend: Probably

I enjoyed this book much more than I expected. I thought I might be bored in a period-book kind of way, but that Edith Wharton is quite the zinger.

I was surprised to feel like I was reading a shorter, American version of Anna Karenina, but without all of the waxing poetic about philosophy and farming (thank goodness). There isn't a lot of dialog, the action moves slowly, but there are lovely little bits scattered throughout the read that make it enjoyable. This is more of a "good for you" read than an entertaining page-turner, but I liked it well enough. I'd like to investigate more of Edith Wharton's books; this was my first one.