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City of Girls

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City of Girls

In 1940, 19-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters. But when she makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Now 89 years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life --- and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it.

City of Girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Publication Date: April 7, 2020
  • Genres: Fiction, Women's Fiction
  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • ISBN-10: 1594634742
  • ISBN-13: 9781594634741