The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel

This “mesmerizing, surreal retelling” (The Washington Post) 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. Tog...