Casey Hans years at Princeton have given her a refined diction an enviable golf handicap wealthy friends a popular white boyfriend and a magna cum laude degree in economics.But no job and a number of bad habits... The elder daughter of working-class Korean immigrants who run a dry cleaning shop in Manhattan Casey inhabits a New York a world away from that of her parents. Ambitious spirited and obstinate shes developed a taste for a lifestyle - and a passion for beautiful hats and expensive tailoring - she hasnt the means to sustain. And between the culture to which her family so fiercely cling and the life she aspires to Casey must confront her own identity the meaning of wealth and what she really wants from her future. As Casey navigates an uneven course of small triumphs and spectacular failures a clash of values ideals and ambitions plays out against the colourful backdrop of New York society its many layers shades and divides...