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The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

Genevieve Valentine

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This retelling of the fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" whisks us to Manhattan during the heady Jazz Age. Jo, the firstborn, "The General" to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of the confines of their father's Manhattan townhouse and into the cabs that will take them to the speakeasy. Together they elude their distant and controlling father, until the day he decides to marry them all off. The girls dance wherever they can—from Salon Renaud to the Swan and, finally, the Kingfisher, the club they've come to call home. They dance until one night when they are caught in a raid and Jo is thrust face-to-face with someone from her past: a bootlegger named Tom whom she hasn't seen in almost ten years. Suddenly Jo must balance not only the needs of her father and eleven sisters, but her own as well.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Year
2015
ISBN-13
9781476739090
Genre
FantasyFiction
Topics
Sisterhood and familyFairy tale retellingFreedom and rebellion in Jazz Age society

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