I snarfeded up Belle Burden’s Strangers last weekend and had more fun discussing it with some lawyer friends (and also in the Deez Links chat, where we ponder who must have leaked those financial documents!) than the actual reading.
The real juice, if you ask me, was learning how the truly wealthy talk about their lives and their wealth so euphemistically. (The controversial Jessica Winter excavation, for example, points out that the “small mortgage” on the family’s Martha’s Vineyard house was for $3M lol; also, when Burden mentions that her maternal grandma was famously married to Bill Paley without mentioning her by name, you’re like…….waitaminute…….). Reminds me of when Tina Brownwould refer to her Hamptons house as a “shack” in her Vanity Fair Diaries, except where we’re talking about a Vanderbilt!
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