The Trouble with You

In an exuberant post WWII New York City,a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose between the safe and the ethicaland the men who represent each… Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming homethe women were exhaling in reliefand everyone was having babiesThe Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of boundseducated in one of the Sister Seven Colleges for a career as a wife and mothertorn between her cousin Mimi who is determined to keep her a ΓÇ£nice girlΓÇ¥ΓÇöthe kind that marries a doctorΓÇöand her aunt Rose who has a rebellious past of her ownFanny struggles to raise her young daughter and forge a new life by sheer will and pluck. When she gets a job as a secretary to the ΓÇ£queenΓÇ¥ of radio serialsΓÇönever to be referred to as soapsΓÇöshe discovers she likes workingand through her friendship with an actress who stars in the series and a man who writes themcomes face to face with the blacklist which is destroying careers and wrecking lives. UltimatelyFanny must decide between playing it safe or doing what she knows is right in this vivid evocation of a world that seems at once light years away and strangely immediate.