Rules of Civility flora perfectly paired with black-line illustrations

perfectly paired with black-line illustrations – and splatters galore

Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior

she’s undergone a stunning and very welcome metamorphosis

Rules of Civility flora perfectly paired with black-line illustrationsOn the last night of 1937, twenty five year old Katey Kontent is in a second rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year long journey into the upper echelons of New York society where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve.