City of Girls: A Novel
From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person. Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.
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Youth in 1940s New York City. Discovering who you are in the big city. It’s fun, it’s trouble. Decisions that alter your life forever.
Overall the book is fine, it’s just really long and not much exciting happens for the first half. The last few chapters were the best in my opinion.
First Half - A lot of sex and being young in NYC. Not spicy enough for me to really care.
Second Half- A lot of thought provoking moments about how women have been treated throughout history, feminism, and the mental health affects of war.
“When women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.”
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