Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart

Summer reading is at its best in Marjorie Hart's memoir Summer at Tiffany. It is the summer of 1945 and Marjorie Jacobson and Marty Garrett arrive in the middle of New York City straight from the heartland--the heartland defined as the Kappa House at the University of Iowa, that is. The two twenty-somethings find jobs as the first female pages at the famous Tiffany & Co., share a studio apartment, pinch pennies in order to eat at the Automat (vowing not to write home for money), date handsome servicemen and in short, have the summer of their lives. Interwoven with her personal memories Marjorie gives us a wonderful portrait of New York City in the summer of 1945, including a first-hand description of celebrating VJ Day in Times Square, as well as a real sense of what it was like to be young and full of opportunity at the end of World War II. Marjorie went on to become the chairman of the Fine Arts Department at the University of San Diego and a professional cellist. Now eighty-three, she wrote this memoir as a project later in life, and it was worth the wait. A delightful, easy read, Summer at Tiffany is worth checking out in any season.

Find Summer at Tiffany at the Adrian Public Library.