Beautiful Little Fools

 Beautiful Little Fools ...sure fooled me... I was reading along thinking how interesting that author Jillian Cantor has written this great historic novel based on the real lives of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan and the deaths that resulted from that steamy love affair... when I realized that the story she was interpreting was originally a novel... not real life.

I have loved all the books I have read by this author.  Her imagination is prolific.  She has wowed me with books about the Rosenbergs and their neighbors.  She has imagined a story where Margot, Anne Frank's sister lives and comes to America to find her sister after the war.  So when she steps in and explores the world of the infamous Jay Gatsby and his relationship with Daisy it is very creative.

Daisy Fay tells the story of meeting Jay, falling in love and the heartbreak of him  leaving for war and her sister and father dying.  Jordan Baker, Daisy's best friend follows the same story line and adds her perspective and personal facts about her life as a professional golfer to fill out the storyline.  We also hear from Catherine McCoy a woman suffragette, who becomes involved with Gatsby and her sister, Myrtle Wilson, whose own unhappy marriage leads her to get involved with the lives of the main characters here by meeting Tom Buchanan at the request of Jay Gatsby.   We hear from each of these women as their lives intertwine in an increasingly dangerous whirlwind that will end in tragedy.

Moral of the story; money cannot make you happy...