When flight attendant Melanie Sartomski meets and marries the fabulously rich head of a coffin empire, it would seem to be the culmination of a lovely dream. However, Melanie soon learns that it's not your fortune that counts - it's what you do with it. Melanie's Park Avenue peers, the ladies who lunch, gossip maliciously and consistently about everything Melanie does that is not in line with their fashions. To them, she's a parvenu and an arriviste, and nothing she does is going to change that. A hatchet job by a society journalist only worsens Melanie's reputation. If you've ever wondered about the habits of the idle rich, and thirsted for envy-enriching detail, this field guide to New York's most solvent and least sane will titillate you no end.