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One of Kwan's six favorite social satires, as shared at The Week magazine:
Read about another entry on the list.People Like Us by Dominick Dunne
To me this is the ultimate New York novel and one of the reasons I moved to the city. Dunne managed to do in 1988 what Truman Capote couldn't do a decade earlier: He wittily eviscerated Manhattan's nouvelle society, thinly disguising the names of the elite, but was still invited to all the right parties afterward.
--Marshal Zeringue