WE ARE RICH  by Dori Carter,  who seems to have an uncanny ability to pick just the right words to construct the most elegant sentences to portray powerful, poignant and hilarious insights about her neighbors in 'Brigadoon by the Beach'.  Bob Fulmer writes that he 'couldn't put the book down to sleep until I finished it and now can hardly wait to read it more slowly and savor each page.  Scott Fitzgerald once said, 'The Rich are very different from you and me'.  Carter shows us just how different they are from the rest of us and from each other. From the cook's son who has the audacity to make it big in silicon valley to the gardener's son who marries the boss's daughter, a new generation in Rancho Esperanza is displacing the old guard ('men with noses that look like they've been sniffing Bordeaux'.  You will never feel the same way about the top level of a Santa Barbara parking deck again.' Thanks, Bob for the enticing review of our next book choice.

WE ARE RICH might refer not only to the pretentious, moneyed characters who populate the stories in this wonderful book, but the very stories themselves. carter paints a droll, witty, really quite vivid and brilliant picture of the wacky wealthy class -- both old and new guard -- in America. the stories had me laughing out loud, and recommending the book to friends before i was even finished. though ostensibly a series of short stories, WE ARE RICH reads very much like a novel because all of the stories are so intricately woven together. a thoroughly satisfying, timely, and memorable collection of stories and characters that i will be thinking about for a long time to come.