WFL Book Club

WFL Book Club meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 1:30pm at West Falmouth Library. New members and drop-ins are always welcome. The February 14th selection is Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor, a follow-up novel to The Great Gatsby.
USA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices.

“Cantor succeeds brilliantly with this audacious revisionist murder mystery featuring characters from The Great Gatsby. . . . Cantor successfully captures the style and tone of the 1925 novel with vivid details. . . . Proving once again that it is ‘hard to forget the past,’ Cantor’s admirably convincing act of literary skullduggery offers many rewards.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This Gatsby retelling reveals more about the women in the story by casting them as humans, not decorative baubles. Cantor asks and answers: Who were the real fools in Gatsby’s world?” — Kirkus Reviews

“Unlike the original destructive, self-absorbed characters and the pervasive issue of class, Cantor focuses instead on portraying Daisy and her fellow females in a sympathetic light, reimagining and empowering them to speak to readers with a feminist bent.” — Booklist

WFL Book Club Schedule 2023:

March 14th         The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff

April 11th            Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz

May 9th              Year of Wonders: a Novel of the Plague  by Geraldine Brooks