A New York Times bestseller, An Amazon.com Best Book of the
Year -- An elegant and captivating debut novel, Rules of
Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of
an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent,
a young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Armed with
little more than a formidable intellect? a bracing wit, and
her own brand of cool nerve, Katey Kontent embarks on a
journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the
upper echelons of 1938 New York City society.