First published 2013
Seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918. He's just an army lieutenant with big dreams about his writing career. Zelda falls for him despite his lack of wealth or Southern pedigree. When Scott sells his first novel, she boards a train to New York to marry him. The couple enters the Jazz Age as celebrities, moving through playgrounds like Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera. They party with the Lost Generation crowd including Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein. Success and fame surround them, but the endless celebrations cannot last forever. Zelda struggles with her identity beyond being the wife of a famous and sometimes notorious writer. Therese Anne Fowler tells Zelda's story from her own perspective, revealing the woman behind the legend.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, biographical-fiction
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: French Riviera, Hollywood, Long Island, New York, Paris
Period: 1918, Jazz Age
375 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press