In the late 1930s, New York was prosperous.
This is the place closest to dreams, a dazzling world, flashy and full of life.
Katie Conten, a calm and wise commoner girl full of poetry, and her roommate Eve met a noble and charming young banker Tinker in a jazz bar.
Katie and Tinker are in love with each other, but a car accident changes the trajectory of their lives.
The encounter with Tinker allowed Katie to enter the upper class society of Manhattan.
She stepped into the elite social circles of New York and into a prestigious large-scale publishing group, starting a year full of surprising and crazy encounters...
Katie calmly swayed forward among the appearances of various fates, only to find that love was drifting away. In the expectation of hopeless love, she finally understood that the "right" choice often involves the pain of loss.
Reader comments
One feeling I have after reading this is: Men really like to question the purity of women's love for them. It was obviously Tinker who committed deception and concealment in the relationship. However, after the heroine found out, other men's feelings about this story were: "Are you too harsh on him?" To put it bluntly, this kind of statement is equivalent to asking the heroine: "Did you fall in love with his money in the first place? If not, then when other aspects of Tinker remain unchanged, why did you stop loving him just because you found out that Tinker's money was earned by working as a duck for a rich woman?", Including Hai in "I Can't Always Look Up to You" The same goes for Mingwei. He was obviously attracted to the young and beautiful heroine from the beginning. It was he who seduced the fledgling heroine and made her his lover while he had a wife and children. However, when the heroine was trying to develop her own career, he questioned whether the heroine was with him in the first place just to take advantage of his literary status. Just, men, even if the love they give is mixed with all kinds of things, they always like to demand that women's love for him must be extremely pure, as if as long as they prove that women's love for them is not pure, as long as they prove that women are not perfect victims, the harm they do to women can be trivialized. They even try to prove that the reason why women are hurt is precisely because their love for men is not pure enough.
This book reminded me of the experience of a friend who was also working hard for his dream. Katie experienced various difficulties in the book, but she never gave up. This perseverance is admirable. Just like my friend, he always perseveres in the face of setbacks. The characters in the book are vivid and the plot has ups and downs, which made me feel the prosperity and madness of that era. At the same time, it also made me understand that in the process of pursuing dreams, I must keep a clear mind and not be fooled by appearances. Overall, this is a book worth reading and recommended to everyone!
One feeling I have after reading this is: Men really like to question the purity of women's love for them. It was obviously Tinker who committed deception and concealment in the relationship. However, after the heroine found out, other men's feelings about this story were: "Are you too harsh on him?" To put it bluntly, this kind of statement is equivalent to asking the heroine: "Did you fall in love with his money in the first place? If not, then when other aspects of Tinker remain unchanged, why did you stop loving him just because you found out that Tinker's money was earned by working as a duck for a rich woman?", Including Hai in "I Can't Always Look Up to You" The same goes for Mingwei. He was obviously attracted to the young and beautiful heroine from the beginning. It was he who seduced the fledgling heroine and made her his lover while he had a wife and children. However, when the heroine was trying to develop her own career, he questioned whether the heroine was with him in the first place just to take advantage of his literary status. Just, men, even if the love they give is mixed with all kinds of things, they always like to demand that women's love for him must be extremely pure, as if as long as they prove that women's love for them is not pure, as long as they prove that women are not perfect victims, the harm they do to women can be trivialized. They even try to prove that the reason why women are hurt is precisely because their love for men is not pure enough.
This book reminded me of the experience of a friend who was also working hard for his dream. Katie experienced various difficulties in the book, but she never gave up. This perseverance is admirable. Just like my friend, he always perseveres in the face of setbacks. The characters in the book are vivid and the plot has ups and downs, which made me feel the prosperity and madness of that era. At the same time, it also made me understand that in the process of pursuing dreams, I must keep a clear mind and not be fooled by appearances. Overall, this is a book worth reading and recommended to everyone!
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