The View from Penthouse B by Elinor Lipman was not a book that I would have picked up to read on my own. It was a book club pick. Once I figured out that the book was supposed to be humorous, I enjoyed it. At first, I was skeptical! It ended up being a good book for discussion.
The story is about three sisters in New York City. Gwen-Laura was a young widow who decided to move into a penthouse after her sister Margot invited her to come live there. Margot was divorced after her gynecological husband was imprisoned for impropriety with patients (ie. impregnating them). Margot could not really afford living in the penthouse, so it made sense to ask her younger sister to move in. They then decided that they needed a third boarder and found Anthony, a much younger gay man who moved in. Their other sister, Betsy, played sort of a voice of reason as Margot and Gwen-Laura begin to explore the dating world again. The adventures included Margot's ex-husband moving into a studio apartment in the same building, and Gwen-Laura exploring the world of on-line dating.
The book was a light, funny, easy-to-read book, that is sometimes needed!
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