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This "richly appointed and generously portrayed" (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel tells the storyline of the WASPy, old-Boston family approaching face-to-face with an America much bigger than the main one it was created in. Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb people, golf club luaus, and WASP marriages that she grew up with. However when she reluctantly results home after her college graduation, she sees that not everything is quite as predictable, or covered, as she experienced imagined. Her father, the eccentric, puritanical Jack port Dunlap, is hauling on stoically after the break up of his marriage, but he can't stop thinking about Rosita, the family housekeeper he fired almost half a year back. Caroline's little brother, Eliot, is working on a huge papier-mâche diorama of their town - or is he hatching a plan of much larger proportions? As the true reason behind Rosita's departure is unveiled, the novel culminates in a series of occasions that assault the fragile, sheltered, and probably outdated world of the Dunlaps. Opening a window into a family's repressed needs and anxieties, The Dangers of Good Mating is a startlingly perceptive humor of manners that heralds a new writer of amazing talent.
