![]() ![]() ![]() The story starts on the eve of Gatsby’s death where we are given a glimpse at who might have killed him before we journey back several years to when Daisy wasn’t a Buchanan yet, Jordan was a rising golf pro and Catherine had just moved to New York City and reconnected with her sister Myrtle who is struggling in an unhappy marriage and dreams of meeting a rich man who can rescue her.Ĭantor recreates the world so perfectly, that I have to think that Fitzgerald would appreciate her reveal on just who killed Jay Gatsby and as someone who enjoyed the novel when it was required reading in school and has watched every feature film based on the book from 1974 movie starring Mia Farrow and Robert Redford to Baz Luhrmann’s colorful re-imagining of the classic tale starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire I thoroughly enjoyed the novel. While the original novel pointed to George Wilson as the culprit in Jay Gatsby’s death, Cantor’s novel tells the story from the perspective of the three women in his life, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Catherine McCoy. ![]() In Jillian Cantor’s latest novel, Beautiful Little Fools we return to the Jazz Age and the world first created by literary great, F. ![]()
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