Auntie Mame

I picked this up because a friend said it was his FAVORITE book and I HAD to read it and I was like, OK! I will! And I did! I think it first came up in conversation when we were talking about [b:The Guncle 54508798 The Guncle Steven Rowley https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1594848421l/54508798.SY75.jpg 85077741], which we had both enjoyed and which textually refers to Mame. I've never seen the movie(s) or musical but I get why the character has endured. A lot of the humor here still really hits, although reading it in 2023 it is definitely notable that Mame is written as a pretty progressive character but let's say that her takes on antisemitism still hold up but her exoticizations of Asian cultures are uhhhh not cool. It is also interesting to me that the edition I read had an afterword by the author's son where he specifically calls out the opening chapter, in which the narrator mistakes Mame for being Japanese because of the way that she's dressed and her hairstyle, as the most beautiful part of the book?????? OK???????? anyway–large parts of this hold up remarkably well but some parts DON'T for sure. but overall very funny.