Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog. It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.
This week's anticipated book:
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication date: June 3, 2014
From barnesandnoble.com: From
award-winning author Genevieve Valentine, a "gorgeous and bewitching"
(Scott Westerfeld) reimagining of the fairytale of the Twelve Dancing
Princesses as flappers during the Roaring Twenties in Manhattan.
Jo, the firstborn, "The General"
to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in
place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one
who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of the confines of
their father’s townhouse to await the cabs that will take them to the
speakeasy. Together they elude their distant and controlling father,
until the day he decides to marry them all off.
The girls, meanwhile, continue to
dance, from Salon Renaud to the Swan and, finally, the Kingfisher, the
club they come to call home. They dance until one night when they are
caught in a raid, separated, and Jo is thrust face-to-face with someone
from her past: a bootlegger named Tom whom she hasn’t seen in almost ten
years. Suddenly Jo must weigh in the balance not only the demands of
her father and eleven sisters, but those she must make of herself.
With The Girls at the Kingfisher Club,
award-winning writer Genevieve Valentine takes her superb storytelling
gifts to new heights, joining the leagues of such Jazz Age depicters as
Amor Towles and Paula McClain, and penning a dazzling tale about love,
sisterhood, and freedom.
Which book are you waiting for?
Enjoy life with books . . .
Catherine
Waiting on Wednesday: The Girls at the Kingfisher Club was originally published by Catherine for bookclublibrarian.com. This post cannot be republished without attribution.
