Overall a quick read and entertaining. Marjorie Hart and her best friend Marty decide to go to New York City during the summer of 1945 when the sorority sisters at their Iowa college decide to rent apartments and live “the life.” This memoir focuses on a very specific period in her life, detailing her summer as they become the first women to work on the sales floor at Tiffany & Co.. This reads as a “who’s who” of the celebrities of that time-Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, et cetera but this does not detract from the story. While she repeatedly returns to her small town roots to establish how “new” this new world is, I think a wiser choice would have been to begin with her family background, and return to it only when necessary. This summer is also of import since that August is when Japan surrenders. She glosses over a lot of the items they were forced to live without-she only notes at the beginning of the book that she leaves Iowa with her rations and stamps. These details would better shape how extraordinary her summer was during a period of loss and hardship.