Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town

by Sarah Payne Stuart

Book Overview

A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture--class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate--through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too-perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own. Whether to defy the previous generation or finally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594633908
• ISBN13: 9781594633904
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher