Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women’s perspective. Beautiful Little Fools: A Novel Hardcover Feb. Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. It is a quintessential tale of money and power, marriage and friendship, love and desire, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented. Each woman is pulled deeper into Jay Gatsby’s romantic obsession, with devastating consequences for all of them. In Beautiful Little Fools, Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby, in an atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices. 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. Each character evolves over the years leading up to the murder of Jay Gatsby. Then a diamond hairpin is discovered in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Beautiful Little Fools tells the story of each of the women in Jay Gatsby’s worldor just on the periphery: socialite Daisy Buchanan, golfer Jordan Baxter, and suffragette Catherine McCoy (Myrtle Wilson’s sister). 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.

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