Upper East Bride

OUR BOOK OF THE YEAR! - "Upper East Bride" by best selling author David Kirby. A must read, original comedy, satire & humor. Rave reviews. - Artisan Book Reviews\nLOVED IT! - What really sets this apart is the dialogue: razor sharp, pun infused, relentless in its ability to wound, like a well-thrown dart; it made me laugh throughout whilst also making me relieved that I was not the recipient. - Discovery Book Reviews\nFROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF “DEATH AT SEAWORLD,” NOW IN DEVELOPMENT FOR A MAJOR 10-PART NETWORK SERIES.
Love, Life, and Loss in the Stratospheric Upper Reaches of High-Society New York. A Comedy of (Bad) Manners\nFIVE STAR REVIEWS AT GOODREADS I could not put the book down. It's funny, witty and clever and while It made me laugh, it also had my eyes watering a little at times. I would give this 10 stars If I could. At once absurd, relatable, compelling, funny, insightful, witty, compassionate, well paced, and ultimately impossible to put down I ended up staying up half the night at one point because I simply had to finish it I had to take breaks from reading because my belly hurt from laughing so hard One of the wittiest books I’ve read in a long time. The storyline is addicting and you literally cannot stop reading it to know what happens next. This book is laugh out loud funny - you simply cannot put it down.
Megan O’Malley is a working-class, aspiring journalist from Ypsilanti who moves to New York City and is unexpectedly hurled into the madness of uber-rich Manhattan, with its competitive consumption, preposterous pretensions, massive financial fiefdoms, and the over-indulged wealthy, whose hordes of help keep the silver polished, the chateaubriand perfectly cooked and the martinis exquisitely dry.
Megan is soon swept off her feet by the city’s most celebrated wealthy bachelor, Rexford Bainbridge, III, better known in the gossip columns as “Sex Rexy.” When he proposes to her, Rex’s stunned circle of friends, including a cabal of Type-A socialites, reluctantly agree to take the decidedly down-market Midwesterner under their comically pompous wings and guide her through a massive makeover.
As Megan pursues her dream of journalism, she must navigate a brave new life of ridiculous opulence, relentless snobbery and stinging ridicule, mostly directed at her. When everything comes crashing down, she is shunned by the ladies who lunch. Can Megan claw her way back to respectability and financial stability, while also delivering a fitting comeuppance to her mentors-turned-tormentors? This rags-to-riches-to-rags social satire unearths the dark, hilarious underbelly of class warfare in contemporary Manhattan.