The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton. “No one writes about the intersection of class, gender, ambition, and societal expectations like Wharton. Thought of as Wharton's quintessential ‘divorce’ novel, The Custom of the Country follows Undine Spragg, a Midwestern transplant who uses her beauty––and more than one marriage––to improve her social circumstances, from the drawing rooms of Manhattan to the salons of Paris.”
