A New York Times bestseller
An Amazon.com Best Book of the Year
An elegant and captivating debut novel‚ Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent‚ a young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose.
Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit‚ and her own brand of cool nerve‚ Katey Kontent embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of 1938 New York City society.