A Wife of Noble Character: A Novel

Imagine Edith Wharton's Lily Bart transported from the Gilded Age to present-day Houston. Her world would have less taffeta, more beer. Her search for love would take her to Texas-big parties, not velvet parlors. And the hush-hush small talk of New York's drawing rooms would be replaced with Lone Star straight talk. This sparkling reimagining of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth shifts from Houston to Paris and back while Puig rekindles the perennial conversation on self-worth when it comes to women and marriage, as apt, and fraught, today as it was then. Colorful and cinematic, Puig's unforgettable debut novel is part Texas love song, part comedy of manners, and wholly irresistible.