![]() Here, appearance is the most important value, replacing all moral virtues as the ultimate sign of viability and personal triumph. The upper-class Manhattan world is characterized as saturated by power and luxury, but also incorrigibly broken and deceitful. Retreating two weeks into the past, the novel begins to draw out the events that led to Elizabeth’s death and the various people who made the sisters’ life a struggle. Elizabeth’s fiancé, Henry Schoonmaker, who harbors a secret crush on Diana, notes that the circumstances of Mr. Elizabeth died just before she was to marry into one of the city’s richest families, reinforcing the sisters’ position. Diana and Elizabeth were known as daughters of New York City’s elite tradition. The book begins at the funeral of Elizabeth Holland. This complex, shifting, and non-linear plot serves to produce an anachronistic characterization of the destructive social dynamism of American capitalism’s upper echelons. ![]() The novel is structured episodically, rotating perspectives between three minor characters, as well as the two sisters who are its central protagonists. When the sisters’ father dies and his rich legacy suddenly holds no weight, they scramble to stabilize their lives before they fall from high society and are forced to undergo a drastic shift in consciousness. ![]() Set in 1899 New York, it follows two sisters, Elizabeth and Diana Holland, who hail from the elite class of Manhattan. Anna Godbersen’s young adult historical novel The Luxe (2007) is the first book in a tetralogy. ![]()
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