New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2017). First edition - In the intertwined lives of two couples - one from Chicago, the other from New Mexico - both of whom head to New York, Spencer has created "a stunning, stinging portrait of class and creativity - and the double-edged sword of success." Newsday describes it as "An old-fashioned story of love, money and social class told through a clever artifice: a series of 13 awful parties (from 1976 to 1990) that give the narrative the immediacy of a series of snapshots, even as the story spills engagingly beyond the boundaries of each image." 366 pp.