New York: Viking, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This highly praised and elegantly written debut novel opens with a chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938, an encounter that catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society. A nostalgic coming-of-age story about identity and the fleeting choices that shape lives. The first novel by the author of the bestselling "A Gentleman in Moscow." SIGNED on the title page with the author's green stamp of an orchestra playing at the top of the page. Includes an appendix with the 110 rules of civility and decent behavior, a book written for the young George Washington, which inspired the title. 335 pp. ISBN: 978-0670022694.