'Society told me I was worthless unless I meant something to a man'ĭaisy details her hope of finding real love instead of conforming to the societal norm of the time and quickly meets Jay Gatsby. This story follows Daisy Fay 'The Sweetheart of Louisville' in 1917 along her journey as a woman from a prominent family expected to retain her purity and marry the most suitable (richest) bachelor who would have her. I read The Great Gatsby years ago and it has remained one of my favorite classics and I simply could not skip out on a retelling with a feminist twist. Beautiful Little Fools is a quintessential tale of money and power, marriage and friendship, love and desire, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented by the past and driven by a destructive longing that can never be fulfilled.I read the blurb for this book and jumped at the opportunity to read it. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women’s perspective. Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F.

Each woman is pulled deeper into Jay Gatsby’s romantic obsession, with devastating consequences for all of them. Their stories unfold in the years leading up to that fateful summer of 1922, when all three of their lives are on the brink of unraveling. Jordan Baker, Daisy’s best friend, guards a secret that derailed her promising golf career and threatens to ruin her friendship with Daisy as well.Ĭatherine McCoy, a suffragette, fights for women’s freedom and independence, and especially for her sister, Myrtle Wilson, who’s trapped in a terrible marriage. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of this enigmatic millionaire.ĭaisy Buchanan once thought she might marry Gatsby-before her family was torn apart by an unspeakable tragedy that sent her into the arms of the philandering Tom Buchanan. Then a diamond hairpin is discovered in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion.

To the police, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson, a local mechanic, is found in the woods nearby. On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool. USA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices.

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