City of Girls -- Elizabeth Gilbert

<b><b>AN INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b> <p/><b>From the # 1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Eat Pray Love</i> and <i>The Signature of All Things</i>, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a <i>good girl</i> to be a good person.</b> <p/><b>A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness. - PopSugar</b> <p/><b>Intimate and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger. -<i>USA Today</i></b> <p/><b>Pairs well with a cocktail...or two. -<i>TheSkimm</i></b></b> <p/>Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are. <p/>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), <i>City of Girls</i> explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. <p/>In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the