About This Book
An older, traditionally minded aunt moves into an up‑town apartment with her two modern nieces, who gently reform her habits and aesthetic prejudices while preparing social events and teaching to support themselves. Through domestic scenes, art classes, club discussions, and social gatherings, the younger women coax her toward new fashions, tastes, and tolerances while she resists with comic discomfort, clinging to earlier values about household routines, decorum, and propriety. The narrative follows their adjustments, familial teasing, and small domestic crises, exploring intergenerational conflict, changing social manners, gendered expectations, and the negotiation between tradition and modernity with light humor.
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