Snappy, Pleasing Novel Content With It’s Own Wit

Whatever Makes You Happy, by Lisa Grunwald. Random House, 238 pages, $23.95.

This novel says New York in its first sentence, which is about the courtyard of the narrator’s childhood building, recognizably on the Upper West Side. The opening of the story pro-per, in the present time-”Lying in bed with my husband one Read More