City of Girls is the new novel by Elizabeth Gilbert. It follows Vivian, a young, spoiled, naive girl who moves to NYC in the 1940’s and begins making costumes at a local theater. The parts describing her life as a seamstress I found really interesting. Otherwise, I found her shallow and boring and just not that original.

Gilbert gives the reader a glimpse into the life of a showgirl in NYC at that time, but I still found this book disappointing. Hard to believe this is the same author who wrote the amazing book The Signature of All Things.