The Three Weissmanns of Westport

Catherine Schine's novel The Three Weissmanns of Westport is a modern retelling of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. I first became intrigued by the novel after I heard Lois Reitzes interview Schine on Between the Lines. Here is the interview:

Catherine Schine, author of The Three Weissmans of Westport

Schine explains in the interview that her motivation for telling the tale lay in part in the fact that in many ways, women today are as vulnerable to the same financial difficulties as the...