Cheerful Money: Me, My Family and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor by Tad Friend. "The author writes for the New Yorker. He's hilarious and brilliant. From an old eastern WASP family with all the attendant history and idiosyncracies. I elected NOT to keep track of the genealogy and just went for the ride and enjoyed the stories. Oh, one thing ... he was in therapy for WAAAAAAAY too many years, and you get to feeling like he was kind of ripped off by his analyst (New York ... sigh) but it probbaly helped him with the narrative for the book, so that's good."
