The Briar Club

by Kate Quinn

The Founding Fathers did not create this great nation of ours so that we could let them down by combining canned tuna with instant mushroom soup. That is not a casserole, that is a war crime.

“I think I hate pálinka,” Grace replied. “It tastes like rubbing alcohol with a touch of apricot.” “It’s an acquired taste.” “So is happiness, to some people.”