A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture--class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate--through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too-perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own. Whether to defy the previous generation or finally...