Summer at Tiffany

In the summer of 1945, as World War II neared its end, two young women from Iowa arrive in Manhattan with little more than enthusiasm and a valuable connection. Marjorie Hart and her best friend Marty secure jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first female employees to work the sales floor. From this position, they encounter gangsters, international playboys, and celebrities at the city's nightclubs, and witness General Eisenhower's victory parade. Written sixty years after that summer, Hart's memoir captures the texture of midcentury Manhattan through the eyes of two twenty-one-year-olds. The book includes photographs and conveys the vibrancy of the city during this pivotal moment in history, told with immediacy and detail about a transformative time in the authors' lives.