The Almost-Rich Get Famous

Caitlin Macy, Spoiled: Stories, Random House: New York, 2009. In Spoiled: Stories (Random House), Caitlin Macy explores the anxiety of women trying to sidle their way into the next social class, ready to take the next step up in the American Dream. "My book is about this somewhat afflicted group," she told the New York Times. "These people on the edge of where they'd like to be: almost rich, slightly rich, very c...