Classics and Contemporary Book Club

Please join our discussion of The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick. Passionate scholar and attorney for Manhattan's Department of Receipts and Disbursements ("Her heart beat for law, even for tax law"), Ruth Puttermesser yearns for a life of the mind, only to find herself hopelessly mired in the eternal circle of city bureaucracy when she is unexpectedly elected mayor of the Big Apple.
This is one of Ozick's most appealing books, an amusing, sympathetic depiction of a worldly woman who's also a hopeful romantic--a thinker who learns that "it was possible for brains to break the heart".