Morningside Heights

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Morningside Heights is written by Cheryl Mendelson and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 5558835737 (ISBN 10) and 9785558835731 (ISBN 13).

This fiction debut by the bestselling author of Home Comforts is a Manhattan saga focusing on a vivid cast of musicians and intellectuals whose lives are suddenly changing. Following the tremendous success of her first book, a nonfiction work on housekeeping that has sold nearly a quarter of a million hardcover copies, Cheryl Mendelson brings to her first novel the same intensely readable style that made Home Comforts so popular. In the spirit of Anthony Trollope, she roots her story very much in a specific time (1999) and place (an old-fashinoned New York City neighborhood that's becoming rapidly gentrified)--so think The Way We Live Now for the late twentieth century. Rents are rising in Morningside Heights, a formerly marginal neighborhood, as a buoyant economy attracts Wall Street types in search of good investments and more space. The circle of friends at the core of the novel are longtime residents, and many are hovering around age forty and finally facing some tough questions about marriage, children, and money. When the one married couple with children in their group can no longer afford to live in Morningside Heights, their imminent departure sends shock waves through their community. This terrifically engaging and intelligent social chronicle is the first of a trilogy of novels about Morningside Heights; readers sure to be drawn in by Mendelson's habit-forming prose have much more to look forward to.