The Group

“In the 1990s, someone mentioned to Candace Bushnell that she should write "'The Group' for women today." Out of that suggestion came Sex and the City. The Group is a phenomonal, whip-smart and intensely readable chronicle of female graduates from Vassar College in 1933 making their way in the Big City post-graduation. Their conversations, and the situations they find themselves in, are eerily similar to those we face today. Funny, sad, and everything in between, anyone interested in girls on the precipice of womenhood (in a world that is hostile to such a transition) must read this Mary McCarthy masterpiece.”

“the books I was drawn to at that time in my life were often of the “postgrad figuring it out in the city” genre, especially midcentury books that made me feel like what I was experiencing was timeless and universal. this book is funny and wry and full of drama, and McCarthy is so so so brilliant. See also: the best of everything by Rona Jaffe!”