Fannie Hurst's novel bursts to life in the comic, crowded world of two upwardly mobile immigrant Jewish families, where every dinner-table argument and social outing becomes a struggle over love, money, and status. In the Binswanger household, Miriam's determined plea for a summer trip to Europe sets off a sharp, affectionate battle with her practical father Simon, her peacekeeping mother Carrie, and her teasing siblings Izzy and Ray. Europe means more than vacation: it represents polish, romance, escape from feeling left behind, and the chance to claim a place in a more worldly future. Across the novel, the Meyerburg family's rise unfolds in equally vivid scenes of luxury and strain. Mrs. Meyerburg moves through Fifth Avenue, elegant motorcars, and glittering dinners with the confidence of a woman who has mastered success, even as old neighborhood memories and family anxieties linger beneath the display. With a visiting marquis, formal toasts, servants, and domestic crises, the story captures the rewards and costs of social climbing, the pull of old roots, and the complicated power of mothers, daughters, and ambitious children. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.