Women’s Hotel A Novel
Women’s Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery is a novel published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2024, featuring 272 pages in English. This debut work presents a poignant and humorous exploration of the lives of residents in a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City. The narrative centers around characters like Katherine, the cynical first-floor manager, and Lucianne, a party girl navigating societal expectations, as they confront the challenges of their daily lives while sharing a unique bond within their transient home.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of experiences as the residents juggle various jobs, personal struggles, and the impending changes to their living situation. The story delves into themes of city life, political dynamics, and the complexities of women’s relationships, all infused with humor. Lavery’s writing captures the essence of the era and the characters’ attempts to make the most of their time together, making Women’s Hotel a notable addition to contemporary fiction.
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From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.
The Biedermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student.
The residents give up breakfast, juggle competing jobs at rival presses, abandon their children, get laid off from the telephone company, attempt to retrain as stenographers, all with the shared awareness that their days as an institution are numbered, and they’d better make the most of it while it lasts.
As trenchant as the novels of Dawn Powell and Rona Jaffe and as immersive as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Lessons in Chemistry, Women’s Hotel is a modern classic–and it is very, very funny.
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