Our Next Book: the House of Mirth

Our next meeting is April 9 at Carla's. The book is The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton. Here is a short review of the novel from The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/19/house-of-mirth-edith-wharton-review

I think the opening line of the review gives us our first discussion question: "Lily Bart a victim of circumstance or an agent of her own destruction? Edith Wharton's acutely observed novel poses this question as it follows Lily's tragic path through the country houses, card tables and drawing rooms of New York's beau monde at the turn of the 20th century."