In Slate's Book Review section, Maria Russo talks about Anna Quindlen's new book, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. She criticized Quindlen's for her tone deft writing about her own wealth. 

There is a bizarre chapter called “Stuff,” in which she enumerates all the things she has accumulated in her two homes—the brownstone in Manhattan and the country place in Pennsylvania: the samplers, the pottery, the four or five enamel colanders, all the way to the closet containing “eighteen pairs of black pants and eleven pairs of black pumps.” Finally she announces that “at a certain point … I realized that I don’t give a damn about any of it.” Is she going to give away some of her hoard to the less fortunate, maybe commit from here on in to practicing radical sustainability? Well, no. She just realizes that she could live without it all. In theory. 

Russo is more sympathetic about Quindlen's discussion of the Irish-Italian community. Russo explains that Qindlen's nails Italian women in a way that Mob Wives does not. There been lots of hate directed at Quindlen over the years for her pro-motherhood messages. While Russo has issues with Quindlen's thoughtless privilege, she is very sympathetic to her portrayals of our tribe. 

Since these are my people, this book review made me itchy to buy this book.