Jane Smiley Quotes

Compared With Iowa, Kansas City Was A Strange World. The Halls Where She Worked Was In The Most Elegant Place She'd Ever Been At That Point, A Made-up Town For Shopping, A Fifth Avenue On The Prairie (when She Got To The Real Fifth Avenue, She Wasn't Very Impressed, Because The Country Club Plaza Had Spoiled Her).

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