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    Dec 15, 2019 5 minutes
    BY MEGAN McCHESNEY

    VIBRANT

    City of Girls

    Elizabeth Gilbert

    Bloomsbury, $34.99

    e meet Vivian Morris, the delightful narrator of Elizabeth Gilbert’s most recent novel, in 1940. She’s 19 and has just been thrown out of her Ivy League university. Her parents get her off their hands by sending her to live with her bohemian Aunt Peg in New York City, and it’s by far the most exciting thing that ever happened to her. Peg runs a down-at-heel Manhattan playhouse, complete with an array of worldly showgirls who immediately welcome Vivian into the fold. It’s all a heady whirl of personal triumphs, endless martinis and sexual escapades until one mortifying scandal changes her life forever. Stuffed with lively characters, great one-liners and an impressively convincing atmosphere, spans 70 years of Vivian’s life and her voice is so strong that even that isn’t

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