beautiful little fools by jillian cantor

Sometimes I think if i’d met Jay gatsby later, say, after Daddy and Rose’s accident, I wouldn’t have even noticed him at all. As much as I gave Daisy, Jordan, Catherine, and Myrtle a voice, maybe they gave me one too.”īeautiful Little Fools, by Jillian Cantor, will be released on Januby Harper Perennial. “In my search for the perfect ending,” Cantor told Oprah Daily, “in the final stages of my revision, I realized the story I ultimately wanted to tell was one of women helping women in their darkest moments, of self-preservation, of a fight for survival, and of the importance of home-all things I’ve thought about many times during these long pandemic months. The title Beautiful Little Fools came to her, and Canton constructed a timeline of her protagonists' lives from Daisy’s first meeting with Jay Gatsby as a teenager, to her disastrous marriage to Tom in the years that followed through Jordan’s golf career and the ensuing scandal and from Myrtle, who has an affair with Gatsby, to Myrtle's fiercely loyal sister Catherine, a single woman in Manhattan.Ĭantor decided the book she was writing would be a mystery novel, with each of the women carrying their own secrets, perhaps also ultimately contributing to Jay Gatsby’s death. She began sharing her concept with fellow writers, who urged her on. Woodman-Maynard.)Ĭantor then dove into the original once more, this time highlighting each mention of Daisy, Jordan, Myrtle, and Catherine. Notable recent titles include Nick, by Michael Ferris Smith, The Great Gatsby Undead, by Kristen Briggs, and The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by K. (By the way, she wasn't alone in her desire to write a Gatsby-inspired book once it was possible to do so. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic book as a jumping off point. Last year, Cantor learned that the copyright for Gatsby was set to expire and go into the public domain in January of 2021, which would clear the way for her to write a novel using F. But while rereading it recently, Cantor began to think about how the story would change if told not from the point of view of narrator Nick Carraway, through his mostly reverential appraisal of Jay Gatsby, but from the perspective of the female characters, especially Daisy. Writer Jillian Cantor has been obsessed with The Great Gatsby since high school.

Beautiful little fools by jillian cantor