Catherine’s Reviews > Rules of Civility > Status Update

not to mention the American exceptionalism….it’s def true to what his characters would believe (read: ignorance due to the lack of globalization), but reading stuff like this last sentence makes my stomach turn: “In the 1950s, America had picked up the globe by the heels and shaken the change from its pockets. Europe had become a poor cousin—all crests and no table settings. And the indistinguishable countries of Africa, Asia, and South America had just begun skittering across our schoolroom walls like salamanders in the sun.”