Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor (2022)
Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle’s sister, in the years before the summer of 1922, and a detective asking who shot Gatsby.
The women were there the whole time. Give each of them the years the novel skips, and reopen the case.
You always thought Daisy deserved a hearing, and you like a mystery.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Daisy, Jordan and the summer of 1922.
Changes: the narrators and the shape: the stories of Daisy, Jordan and Catherine McCoy, Myrtle Wilson’s sister and a suffragette, in the years before the summer, inside a murder mystery.
Whose story is it?
Daisy’s, Jordan’s and Catherine’s.
How much time does it ask?
368 pages in the Harper Perennial paperback.
HarperCollins: Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker and Catherine McCoy, “in the years leading up to that fateful summer of 1922.”
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into West Egg: The Scribner paperback (“The Only Authorized Edition”) · The Penguin Classics edition, introduction by Min Jin Lee · The Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Alworth