City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

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City of Girls Book by Elizabeth Gilbert

This book is all about Vivian. And that does get a little burdensome at times. And the characters are not people, but clichés pretending to be people. The dialogue, of course, mirrors the people, as well it must. And, yes, this book could have been written in a heartbeat and just for the money, as some reviewers have claimed, by such a talented writer.

But I’m guessing not. First of all, I grew up in a town not ten miles where Vivian grew up and there was no family like hers within a hundred miles. But, more importantly, the clichés are just, well, too clichéd, and as one who loves the written word that is not easy to pull off. This author had a hidden motive.

And I believe I saw it, sometimes briefly, but throughout the book.

The message is that we know sh** about life or each other. And that is a powerful message. A philosophical one, for sure. But true.

In the end I don’t believe this is a novel about the NY theater scene in the 1940s, the war, and it was a big one, emotional scarring, or even female emancipation. This is a story that could be titled: “Who the heck do we think we are?”

I loved it. The writing is superb. Snappy, for sure, but that’s a lot harder to pull off than it may seem. The characters are more than over the top but they are based in reality. Peg, the alcoholic lesbian theater owner, was my favorite. She holds the wisdom of the ages.

There is an awful lot of talk about sex. Vivian loves it – with lots of different men she doesn’t know – because, she says, it brings her satisfaction, if not fulfillment or happiness. But she never takes the reader to bed with her and I’m okay with it because male protagonists have been doing the same thing since paper was invented.

✅ Genre: Novel, Romance novel, Historical Fiction, Urban fiction

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