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"It's difficult to avoid this book's humor, elegance, and charm."--Lauren Groff, writer of The Creatures of Templeton and ArcadiaA wise and slyly humorous story of love, attraction, distress, and dedication; a victorious and superbly performed recasting of Edith Wharton's Age Innocence.Newly involved and unthinkingly self-happy, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman may be the prize catch of Temple Fortune, a little, tight-knit Jewish suburb of Birmingham. Because they were both sixteen and today, towards the comfort and joy of the whole Gilbert household he's been courting Rachel Gilbert, they're ultimately to wed. To Adam, Rachel symbolizes the greatest ideals of Temple Bundle; she's traditional, harmless, and completely safe in her neighborhood--a location by which everybody still knows the whereabouts of the room school friends. Marrying Rachel may cement Adam's part in a comfortable, comprehensive household he loves.But whilst the huge machinery of the marriage gathers impetus, Adam seems the very first light details of claustrophobia, and when Rachel's young cousin Ellie Schneider goes house from Ny, she unsettles Adam significantly more than he'd care to admit.